US cybersecurity firm: Hackers stole EU diplomatic cables
December 20, 2018
LONDON (AP) — Hackers have spent years eavesdropping on the diplomatic communications of European Union officials, a U.S. cybersecurity firm said Wednesday, an operation disrupted only after researchers discovered hundreds of intercepted documents lying around on the internet.
The documents were discovered a few months ago after a malicious email was caught by the Redwood City, California-based Area 1 Security firm, according to company co-founder Blake Darche.
He said the firm followed forensic clues in the message back to an unsecured server that had some 1,100 EU diplomatic cables. Darche s...
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