Michał Dworczyk, the head of office in the chancellery of the Polish head of government, has probably had troubled hours.

On Wednesday night, shortly after midnight, he confirmed on Twitter that he had been the victim of a hacker attack.

The clearest indication of this was a message apparently handwritten by someone else on Dworczyk's wife's Facebook page.

Gerhard Gnauck

Political correspondent for Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania based in Warsaw.

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    It said that her husband's work documents had been stolen by hacking his e-mail account, which "could be used to damage the national security of the Republic of Poland".

    The politician is Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's right-hand man.

    Dworczyk enjoys a high level of non-partisan respect;

    He has been Poland's corona vaccination officer for a few months.

    What are the hacked documents about?

    In his “reply” Dworczyk writes: “I see an element of extensive disinformation activities in this attack.” Contrary to what the hackers claim, nothing leaked that was subject to any of the various levels of secrecy.

    A Polish portal later reported that documents from the process of Polish legislation had been hacked and published on the Telegram messenger service.

    It deals with the law passed at the time of the corona pandemic on the establishment of an agency for strategic reserves. A document from August 2020, when protests against the fraudulent presidential election began in neighboring Belarus, is also affected. It speaks of a facilitated immigration of Belarusians, including those of Polish origin, in Poland.

    The politician sees a connection between the attack and his commitment to the development of Poland's eastern neighbors and the situation of the Polish minorities there. "As a person who actively supported the democratic changes in the territory of the former Soviet Union, I was banned from entering the country for eleven years by the states of Belarus and Russia." On Wednesday, the Polish media reported that another document had been published by Telegram: the résumé of the Polish Colonel Konrad Korpowski. The military runs the government security center, a kind of top-level crisis team.

    The protests in Belarus, their violent crackdown and the flight of Belarusian activists to Poland have contributed to the tension between the two countries. It was only at the weekend that the leader of the right-wing ruling party PiS in Warsaw, Ryszard Terlecki, caused a stir. He had heavily criticized an appearance by the Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsichanowskaya at an event with the liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski. After a while, even politicians in the government camp distanced themselves from Terlecki. Belarus announced on Wednesday that the "Friendship" oil pipeline, through which oil from Russia reaches Polish and German refineries, would be shut down by June 12. Repair work is necessary.