The security agency says thousands of UK workers have been approached by spies using fake profiles.
Spies are using fake profiles to steal classified information, according to the counter-intelligence agency MI5
It warned users who had accepted such connection requests might have then been lured into sharing secrets. The 10,000-plus figure includes staff in virtually every government departments as well as key industries, who might be offered speaking or business and travel opportunities that could lead to attempts to recruit them to provide confidential information.
"No-one is immune to being socially manipulated into wrongdoing through these approaches," the guidance given to government staff says.The campaign, run by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, which reports to MI5, asks government staff to focus on "the four Rs":removing the profiles
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