Russian Re-Penetration of Czech Intelligence

PETE COMMENT

The ability of Russian-sponsored hackers “to access personal information about Czech government employees” may be a real worry because:

-  it may help point to any Czech employees who are acting undercover in Russia, and

-  short of that it may point, via Czech government personnel files, to any personal vulnerabilities of 

    Czech employees (eg. alcoholism? gambling debts? suspicions of corruption?) that Russian

    intelligence can exploit. This is noting Czechoslavakian State Security personnel (1945 to 1990)
    looked fondly to the Russian KGB, until 1991.

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"Czechs accuse Moscow of ‘most serious wave of cyberespionage’ in years" on INTELNEWS, December 5, 2018, https://intelnews.org/2018/12/05/01-2450/ :

"The main domestic intelligence agency of the Czech Republic has accused Russia of “the most serious wave of cyberespionage” to target the country in recent years. The claim was made on Monday in Prague by the Security Information Service (BIS), the primary domestic national intelligence agency of the Czech Republic. Details of the alleged cyberespionage plot are included in the BIS’ annual report, a declassified version of which was released this week...."

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