The Scottish Parliament has been targeted by a brute force attack, the assault is still ongoing and is similar to the one that hit the British Parliament in June. MSPs and Holyrood staff were warned on Tuesday that unidentified hackers were running brute-force attacks on systems in the devolved assembly. Chief executive Sir Paul Grice said the attack, from external sources, was similar to that which affected Westminster in June that led to the exposure of at least 90 accounts.”]
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