George Osborne MP claims that foreign intelligence agencies are responsible for many of the attacks. Osborne claims that the Treasury is one of the most targeted departments across Whitehall. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the government computers are on the receiving end of over 20,000 malicious email attacks every month. The attacks are often intended to steal sensitive information, he said in a keynote address at the Google Zeitgeist event in London today. The Treasury was targeted in 2010 by hundreds of attempts to break into the Treasury’s computer system.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/uk-government-under-cyber-attack-says-chancellor-george-osborne/