Liz Truss’s personal phone was hacked by Putin’s spies for top secret details of the negotiations

Liz Trussher personal phone – including private messages she exchanged with Kwasi Kwarteng – was hacked by agents suspected of working for President Vladimir Putin, Mail on SundayGlen Owen and Dan Hodges revealed.

Russian agents are believed to have gained access to top-secret details of negotiations with key international allies, as well as messages critical of the then prime minister. Boris Johnson.

Sources say up to a year’s worth of messages were transferred, with the hack not discovered until this summer. Tory leadership campaign.

Her phone was allegedly compromised when Mrs Truss was Foreign Secretary

Her phone was allegedly compromised when Mrs Truss was foreign secretary, but the details were hushed up by Johnson and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, who ordered the news to be switched off.

A source told the paper that the phone was so badly compromised that it has now been stored in a safe at a secure government location.

The hacked messages also reportedly included highly sensitive discussions with senior international foreign ministers about the war in Ukraine.

These are said to include discussions about arms shipments, with the source describing it as “not good” for the UK foreign secretary to have her phone so easily compromised.

Agents allegedly working for Russian President Vladimir Putin are believed to have been given access to top-secret details of negotiations with key international allies.

The shocking incident, revealed to the newspaper by security sources, explains why Mrs Truss was forced to change the mobile number she had used for more than a decade shortly before she became Prime Minister.

At the time, her decision to do so was reported to have caused confusion and anxiety among cabinet ministers and advisers who were suddenly unable to contact her.

A UK government spokesman said in a statement issued to the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday afternoon: ‘We do not comment on individual security arrangements. The government has robust systems in place to protect against cyber threats. This includes regular security briefings for ministers and advice on protecting their personal data and mitigating cyber threats.”