Brown may have been victimized too in Hacking Scandal

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Former U.K. Prime minister, Gordon Brown’s emails may have been hacked as well as revealed through the ongoing investigation regarding News International phone hacking scandal.

According to a report generated by “The Independent” , the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Tuleta team is trying to collect evidences that several newspapers  have hired private detectives to illegally access computers. Tuleta team is searching for evidence from around 20 computers and that the possibility that hundreds of victims may have had their emails hacked.

It is also believed that the Mr. Brown may be also targeted as a victim by hackers as his emails along with the former lobbyist and New Labour spin doctor Derek Draper’s may have been hacked to scandalize Mr. Brown’s stormy relationship with former prime minister Tony Blair. The period of this probable hacking falls under the time when Mr. Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

However, Draper’s emails have been leaked long ago. As revealed through press in 2008, a series of messages exchanged between himself and New Labour grandee, Peter Mandelson.  While in 2009, a spell of emails between Draper and Mr. Brown’s head of staff, Damian McBride planning a campaign to spoil the image of David Cameron were published as well.

The time span during which the phone hacking scandal was uncovered, Mr. Brown had accused Rupert Murdoch-owned News International of illegally accessing his emails.

The email hacking investigation had led to the arrest of a 52-year-old man a couple of months before in connection with the email hacking investigation on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act.

The increased security risks are highly emphasized by the press many times that is subject to the use of unencrypted emails by senior government ministers.

Last year in December, data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office was forced to issue a new warning with regards to the usage of personal email accounts to discuss official government business are still subject to the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. The warning was issued after it had been known that education secretary, Michael Gove had been using his Gmail account for government business, a suspicious act that intended that official emails were hidden from staff trying to respond to an FoI request but which could also have put them at risk from hackers. Even the government-grade email communications have been found wanting.

In October, former home secretary, David Blunkett has explained how a conversation with former French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy was exposed that the French had been capturing unencrypted emails sent by the Home Office to the British ambassador in Paris.

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