Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with a idiosyncratic posing arsenic the main of unit to US President Donald Trump.
Downing Street has declined to remark connected the information breach, archetypal reported by Politico.
Politico reported that officials said Burnham communicated with the idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium Susie Wiles "before becoming suspicious that the interaction was illegitimate" and claimed lone a "few messages" were exchanged.
A authorities spokesperson said: "We bash not remark connected nationalist information matters."
It is understood the connection betwixt Burnham and the idiosyncratic posing arsenic Wiles was successful the signifier of messages and determination was nary speech betwixt the two.
"No messages of significance" were exchanged and the texts were "quickly reported to the due authorities" erstwhile they were believed to beryllium suspicious, sources said.
The BBC has antecedently reported an FBI probe into Wiles' telephone being hacked successful May past year.
At that time, Wiles said her telephone had been hacked aft an impersonator, oregon impersonators, utilized her contacts record to connection different apical US officials.
The impersonation was targeted astatine her idiosyncratic phone, not authorities phone, but recipients included US senators, governors and apical concern executives.
Wiles, a cardinal Trump ally, was besides among those targeted by a cyber espionage portion associated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards - a almighty subdivision of Iran's equipped forces - successful 2024.
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