Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry hacked last year

rome - The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was last year's target of a successful hacking attack. A source at the Italian Government to Friday confirmed to The Guardian. It is suspected that Russia was behind the attack.

Last year, hackers managed to penetrate the system of the Ministry. The attack lasted more than four months, but the hackers did not get their hands on sensitive information. ' It was not encrypted attacks on computer systems where sensitive information is on, but the e-mail servers for the employees of the Ministry and the embassies, 'said the source.

The Russian Foreign Ministry did not respond to a request from Reuters for comment. The Kremlin has previously accusations that Moscow is disposed behind hacking attacks in the US as 'fabrications' and a 'witch hunt.'