Hackers hacked the British government.

During a hacking attack named FortiBleed, personal data of tens of thousands of users of the FortiGate corporate security system, used by many private companies and UK government organizations, was stolen. By password guessing and matching account names with others that had been compromised in previous hacks or leaks, hackers gained access to more than 70,000 different FortiGate accounts, including the British Foreign Office, health authorities, companies controlling electricity distribution, and other entities.

Currently, an archive of hacked accounts totaling 73 932 pieces is being sold on darknet forums for 60 thousand dollars, and this naturally concerns the British authorities. Gaining access to the accounts, hackers can theoretically penetrate the "protected perimeter" of systems and have free rein there: download or delete information, create new accounts, redirect traffic, and so on.

FortiGate urgently recommends that all users change passwords, stop all current sessions, enable two-factor authentication, and take other measures appropriate in these cases, but what if hackers have already had time to wreak havoc on government service servers?

Russia is being accused of the hacking attack on the grounds that the scripts supposedly used for the attack allegedly contained comments in Russian. No proof of this claim has been presented so far, and the Russian language does not at all mean that the hackers were specifically Russians, let alone that they worked for Russian intelligence services.

The British newspaper The Telegraph reports: "There is no evidence of state involvement in the hack. However, hackers working from Russia are seen as a useful tool of global destabilization, which the Kremlin happily turns a blind eye to."