Poland's Tusk says Russian hackers attacked party websites before election
WARSAW, Poland — Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Russian hackers attacked the websites of parties in his ruling coalition on Friday, two days before a presidential election.
The frontrunner in Sunday's election is a high-ranking member of Tusk's Civic Platform party, Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski.
'Two days before the elections, a group of Russian hackers operating on Telegram attacked the websites of the Civic Platform,' Tusk wrote on X on Friday afternoon.
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