Russia has been accused of having hacked the Danish Ministry of Defense and gained access to its employees’ emails in 2015 and 2016, local media reported on Sunday.
Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen was quoted by Danish news agency Ritzau as saying that the group behind the hacking is linked to the Russian intelligence services.
“It is linked to the intelligence services or core elements of the Russian government, and it is an eternal struggle to keep them away,” Frederiksen said.
According to a report by the Center for Cyber Security in the Military Intelligence Service, the hackers have gained access to so-called “non-classified information”, but the attack can still harm Danish security.
The report explained that the information can be used to hire agents in the Danish military.
The group behind the attack was hacker group APT28, also called Fancy Bear, according to local newspaper Berlingske.
(with reports from PNA and Xinhua)
