Czech cyber-attack: Russia suspected of hacking diplomats’ emails

Scale and sophistication of hack points to foreign state, says Czech foreign minister, comparing it to attack on US Democratic party

The Czech Republic has suffered a damaging security breach after hackers infiltrated the emails of dozens of its most senior diplomats in a massive cyber-attack thought to have been carried out by Russia.

Lubomir Zaorilek, the country's foreign minister, admitted that his own email account had been breached in a "sophisticated" operation he compared to the onslaught against the Democratic party in the recent US presidential election.