The hacked
documents
show how the
“strategic
communications”
programme
has
influenced
the
reporting of
many major
media
organisations.
By Ian Cobain: Hackers have
penetrated the computer systems of the UK’s
foreign ministry and taken hundreds of files
detailing the country’s controversial propaganda
programmes in war-torn Syria.
In a security
breach of enormous proportions, the hackers
appear to have deliberately targeted files that
set out the financial and operational
relationships between the Foreign, Commonwealth
and Development Office (FCDO) and a network of
private-sector contractors that have been
covertly running media platforms in Syria
throughout the nine-year civil war.
Middle East Eye
understands that between 200 and 300
highly sensitive documents are thought to have
been acquired by the hackers.