Foreign state seen behind hack into Czech Foreign Ministry email

Hackers have breached dozens of email accounts at the Czech Foreign Ministry in an attack resembling one against the U.S. Democratic Party that the former Obama administration blamed on Russia, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

He said he was told by experts the cyber-attacks were likely conducted by a foreign state. He said no confidential material was compromised, though an extensive amount of data was stolen.

Zaoralek, whose email account was also affected, did not name any countries he thought may be responsible for the attack.

"When I discussed this with the best experts that we have here, they told me that the character of the attack was such that the attack was very sophisticated, that it must have been, according to them, conducted by some foreign state, from the outside," Zaoralek told a news conference.

"They also told me that the way the attack was done very much resembles the character of attacks against the system of the Democratic Party in the United States."

The Czech Republic is a member of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and of the European Union.

Zaoralek said the ministry had known since the beginning of January that hackers had breached its email, and added it was necessary to check whether other key government institutions have also been attacked, something he said was possible.

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