Security News > 2020 > December > Finnish Parliament attackers hack lawmakers’ email accounts
The email accounts of multiple members of parliament were compromised following a cyberattack as revealed today by the Parliament of Finland.
"Some parliament e-mail accounts may have been compromised as a result of the attack, among them e-mail accounts that belong to MPs," Parliament officials said.
Finland's Central Criminal Investigation Department has begun looking into the Finnish Parliament data breach at the end of the autumn and the case is also being investigated as a suspected espionage incident.
Another Scandinavian country, Norway, disclosed a strikingly similar incident with attackers compromising email accounts belonging to Norwegian Parliament representatives and employees in August 2020.
In October, the Council of the European Union announced sanctions against multiple APT28 members for their involvement in the 2015 hack of the German Federal Parliament which also led to the breach of several parliament members' email accounts.