CNN says Russian hackers behind the hacking of state-owned Qatar News Agency

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CNN said in a reported on Tuesday that US investigators believe Russian hackers were behind the hacking of state-owned Qatar News Agency last week.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations sent a team to the capital, Doha, to assist Qatari authorities in finding out what happened.

Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, told CNN that the hacking of Qatar’s national news agency was “proved by the FBI”.

Though the FBI has not yet commented on the investigation, a spokesperson for Qatar’s embassy in Washington, DC told CNN that the country will release the results in the near future.