The FSB state security service is accused of hacking and releasing sensitive documents.
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    The group is accused of carrying out hundreds of highly targeted hacks against politicians, civil servants, those working for think-tanks, journalists, academics and others in public life.

    The group linked to the FSB - and specifically the part of it known as Centre 18 - has been targeting the UK by stealing information from those in political and public life since at least 2015, it is believed.

    SNP MP Stewart McDonald told the BBC this February that a group believed to have been linked to Russian intelligence stole his emails after posing as one of his staff.

    Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, the SNP’s Brendan O’Hara, the party’s foreign affairs spokesman, said Russia’s actions were part of a “persistent pattern of behaviour”, and asked if the government had “considered making cybersecurity training mandatory for all MPs and their staff.”

    Other targets include the think-tank the Institute for Statecraft and its founder Chris Donnelly whose data was leaked online as well as a former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove.

    In 2016, a different part of Russian intelligence was accused of stealing and making public emails belonging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, a move some considered significant in a tight race.

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