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The British government’s climate change guru, Lord Stern, has had his emails sabotaged, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Lord Stern, author of the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change and vocal advocate of the danger of man-made climate change, recently left government to head the London School of Economic’s Grantham Institute for Climate Change.
The Institute confirmed to Channel 4 News that Lord Stern’s email account was targeted last week.
A trojan horse computer virus was embedded in his account which then sent itself to other contacts in the economist’s inbox.
The email containing the virus appeared to come from Lord Stern himself but the Institute will not disclose the subject of the email or who may have been a receipient of the messages.
However, their technology department was able to establish that the breach originated in the United States.
Source: channel4.com