UK Parliament investigates cyberattack on user accounts
LONDON — British officials were investigating a cyberattack Saturday on the country’s Parliament after discovering “unauthorized attempts to access parliamentary user accounts.”
A statement from the House of Commons said that as a precaution, remote email access for members has been disabled in order to protect the network from hackers.
“As a result, some Members of Parliament (lawmakers) and staff cannot access their email accounts outside of Westminster,” it said, adding that IT services at Parliament itself are working normally.
It was not immediately clear how many people were affected or what the extent of the damage was.