many leaders in the uk unable to access e-mails. the big question tonight is, who's behind it all? abc's ron claiborne is in london with the latest. >> reporter: an audacious cyberattack on the british government. tonight, every member of parliament shut out of remote e-mail by the british government. as hackers attempted to break into their accounts. >> blanket targeting of members of parliament is serious. it's very serious in nature. if i can get access to your e-mail account, then i get access to a lot of of information. >> reporter: the hack attempt first discovered friday, led to the shutdown and this alert from parliament. in attempt to identify weak passwords. these attempts were specifically trying to gain access to user e-mails. this member of parliament taking to twitter, sorry, no parliamentary e-mail access today, we're under cyberattack from kim jong un, putin or a kid in his mom's basement or something. it wasn't 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 seni