Saturday 5 November 2022 10:07 PM Liz Truss is on her FOURTH new mobile phone number since July after alleged ... trends now
Liz Truss is on her fourth new mobile phone number since July, as the security services battle to protect her from being further compromised by foreign powers.
The Mail on Sunday revealed last week that the former Prime Minister had to change her number during the summer leadership contest after she was hacked by agents suspected of working for Russia.
Now this newspaper can disclose new details about the panic the hack caused in Ms Truss’s team – and how she is still suffering the consequences.
A former aide says Ms Truss, who was Foreign Secretary, was ‘ashen-faced’ when she was told that the number she had been using for more than a decade had been ‘compromised’.
She was also warned a year’s worth of messages – including exchanges with former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and sensitive information about military strategy in Ukraine – were in the hands of an individual who had alerted her office to the security breach.
A former aide says Ms Truss, who was Foreign Secretary, was ‘ashen-faced’ when she was told that the number she had been using for more than a decade had been ‘compromised'
The aide said: ‘GCHQ laid the blame for the hack squarely at the feet of Russia. Liz was told that the individual had agreed to hand them over because they were clearly the work of Russia.’
One adviser in the room asked Ms Truss what she worried might be in the messages. She is understood to have replied: ‘Stuff between me and my guys.’
Ms Truss initially told just two of her closest advisers about the hack out of fear the information would leak but more knew as the campaign progressed.
The aide added Ms Truss ‘exchanged concerned looks’ with her political aide responsible for national security policy while explaining events.
The former Prime Minister had to change her number during the summer leadership contest after she was hacked by agents suspected of working for Russia
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