The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was the target of a “serious cybersecurity incident”.
The details – which were first revealed by The Stack – came from a tender document published on a government website that showed that BAE Systems was called upon for “urgent support”.
The BBC report claims that “unidentified hackers got inside the FCDO systems but were detected” and that it is “not believed that any classified or highly sensitive material was breached”.
It added that the contract – which finished on 12 January of this year – was valued at £467,325.
