Friday, April 30, 2021

UK PM's mobile phone number available online for 15 years

The British government has been embarrassed by claims that Boris Johnson's personal mobile phone number was freely available on the internet for the past 15 years.


The weekly gossip Popbitch newsletter revealed that the digits were tacked on to the bottom of a 2006 press release when he was an opposition MP, and that it remained online ever since. 


Security officials are deeply concerned about how this could have compromised the Prime Minister and left him vulnerable to cyber threats or even blackmail. 


From London, Benji Hyer reports. 


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