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uk are unable to access their e-mails. abc news reporter ron claiborne has that story. >> reporter: an audacious cyber attack, every member of the parliament shut out of remote e-mail by the british government after hackers attempted to break into their accounts. >> blanket targeting of members of parliament is serious. it's very serious in nature in terms of if i can get access to your e-mail account, then, i can get access to a lot of information. >> reporter: the hack attempt first discovered friday led to the shutdown and this alert from parliament on the cyber attack. an attempt to identify weak pass words, these attempts were specifically trying to gain access to users e-mails. this member of parliament taking to twitter. no parliamentary e-mail access today. cyber attack from kim jong-un, putin, or a kid in his mom's basement or something. it's not immediately known who was behind the attack, but the times of london reports that russian hackers have been selling e-mail addresses and passwords of senior british government officials. >> we know that the public services are att