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“Foreign election interference” behind cyberattack on Polish ruling party, says Tusk


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While the prime minister provided no further details regarding the incident, the head of his chancellery, Jan Grabiec, later on Wednesday told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that the attack had taken place within the last dozen or so hours. In a separate interview with the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Grabiec added that the attack had targeted “several dozen public figures, including leading politicians and members of Rafał Trzaskowski’s campaign team – but for now I would prefer not to provide specific names”. Poland’s digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, also confirmed in a post on social media that “state security services are working intensively” to investigate the attack and that further details would be revealed when they are available.

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