Ten thousand Britons have been targeted on LinkedIn by recruiters for the Chinese and Russian intelligence services, according to an awarenss campaign launched by domestic spy agency MI5 this morning.
Details were previewed in this morning's Times newspaper, which warned specifically of people with "access to classified or sensitive information" being targeted by Britain's enemies.
The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), an MI5 offshoot, told the newspaper its figure of 10,000 compromise attempts over five years was a conservative one, with MI5 chief Ken McCallum saying in a prepared statement: "Malicious profiles on professional networking sites are being utilised on an industrial scale."
UK government's chief security officer, Dominic Fortescue, added in a ..
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