Energy firms 'hacked on UK election day'

'State-sponsored' cyber attackers may have harvested usernames and passwords

President Vladimir Putin
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National spy agency GCHQ has warned energy companies that they were "likely to have been compromised" in cyber attacks on 8 June while the UK held its election, the Daily Telegraph reports, citing a leaked report.

Although there is mention of "state-sponsored" cyber attacks, GCHQ did not explicitly name the state thought to be responsible. Experts told the Telegraph they believed that "the Kremlin was behind the attack".

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