Kremlin agents believed to have been behind hacking of Truss's mobile phone

Russian agents are believed to have been behind the hacking of former British Prime Minister Liz Truss's personal mobile phone.

Although the incident occurred in the summer of 2022, shortly before Truss became the head of the UK government, the details were revealed only now by the Mail Online group of publications.

The cyber-spies, accused of being Kremlin agents, have infiltrated Truss’s phone, who was the foreign secretary at the time and supposedly gained access to top-secret exchanges with key international partners as well as private conversations with the then-leading political ally, Kwasi Kwarteng.

The Mail on Sunday, part of Mail Online, reported that according to sources, the phone was so heavily compromised that it now has been placed in a locked safe inside a secure Government location.

Details of the incident were suppressed by the Prime Minister at the time, Boris Johnson, and the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case.

The hacked mobile information is said to have included conversations between Truss and Kwarteng in which they criticized Prime Minister Johnson, leading to the potential risk of blackmail. According to the sources, up to a year’s worth of messages were downloaded by foreign forces.

Highly sensitive discussions with senior international foreign ministers about the war in Ukraine, including detailed discussions about arms shipments are believed to have been taken too.