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Liam Fox

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Leaked details of the trade negotiations between the UK and the USA, common in the eve of elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in December 2019, comes after a hacking hackers email the then trade Minister of the United Kingdom Liam Fox, said on Monday, Reuters, citing two anonymous sources close to the investigation.

They did not specify what organization or company who carried out the hacking may be involved, but expressed confidence that the attack was some kind of government. The representative of the government in response to a request by Reuters would not comment on information Agency sources, citing the ongoing investigation.

Recall that confidential documents on trade talks with the US appeared on the Internet ahead of the elections of 2019. According to Agency sources, the hackers logged into your account Fox several times in the period from July 12 to October 21 last year.

Among the stolen information, it was a six pack of documents, where details of trade negotiations between the United Kingdom and the United States. Reuters was unable to determine which accounts Fox was hacked and when it first happened. Liam Fox resigned as trade Minister on 24 July 2019, he is still a member of Parliament. The official representative of Fox has repeatedly declined to comment.

In July 2020, the head of the British foreign Minister Dominic Raab said that the UK government considers that “Russian forces attempted to interfere” in last year’s British parliamentary elections by distributing “illegally obtained” government documents. He said that Russian forces tried to interfere in the General elections of 2019, spreading online illegally obtained and subjected to leak government documents revealing details of a new trade deal between the US and the UK.

While Raab added that evidence of “widespread campaign” to intervene in the British democratic process have been identified.

Also in July, the national cybersecurity center in the UK has published a document in which Russia, with its many reservations were accused of trying to steal information about developing a vaccine against coronavirus in the UK, Canada and USA. This, as found by the intelligence agencies of the three countries, allegedly made the group APT29, which “is almost certainly a part of the Russian intelligence services”.

Russia’s Ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin in response to these allegations said that Moscow is not engaged in “whatever interference” and did not see it. Approval of special services of the Kingdom of allegedly undertaken by Moscow attempted abductions of data on the development of a vaccine against the new coronavirus, which he called nonsense.