Senior members of Theresa May's cabinet were targeted by Russian hackers. WPA Pool / Getty LONDON — The passwords and login details of senior cabinet ministers and a host of other senior public figures have been sold online by Russian hackers.

An investigation by The Times found that online details belonging to Greg Clark, the business secretary and Justine Greening, the education secretary, are just some of the stolen data belonging to tens of thousands of civil servants and government officials were sold or traded on Russian-speaking hacking sites before being made freely available.

The news will be worrying for the government after the ransomware attack on the government earlier this year, hinting that its cybersecurity is not as strong as the government claims.

Clark and Greening's details are amongst twoarrested were previously been deported. Forty-two had criminal histories which included convictions for “serious or violent crimes.” Those convictions include rape, child exploitation, robbery, drug trafficking, and assault.

Officials provided examples of those arrested:

In Houston, a 29-year-old Turkish national convicted of child exploitation;

In Houston, a previously removed 43-year-old Honduran convicted of rape;

In Houston, a 44-year-old Cuban convicted of burglary; and

In Tomball, a twice-removed 46-year-old Mexican national convicted of burglary and drug trafficking.

Officers made the arrests in the following cities in the Houston Metropolitan Area: Houston (26), Conroe (9), Cleveland (2), Alvin (1), Tomball (1), the Woodlands (1), Texas City (1), Channelview (1), Clearlake (1), Baytown (1), and Bellville (1). The illegal immigrants came to the U.S. from: Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Cuba, Nigeria, India, Chile, and Turkey.

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