Nigel Farage hack exposed: Reform UK leader targeted by French spy

Nigel Farage was left shocked after GB News exposed a corrupt French spy had hacked into his personal details.

The Reform leader was stunned to learn of the secret bid to steal his private information.

Our investigators unearthed an attempt by a former French intelligence services agent to access his finances and sell the details to a shadowy client via the dark web.

A spokesman for Mr Farage told GB News: “Nigel is one of the most attacked and watched politicians in the country.

“Only a few months ago it was revealed that Russia were snooping on him. Now it’s our allies in France.

“It’s quite frankly disgraceful this has happened and even worse to find out through the media - not official channels.”

The People's Channel can reveal the bent spy tried to dig up data on Mr Farage for a dark web client who wrongly believed Farage was a French tax resident.

Court documents show Christophe Boutry - codenamed 'Haurus' - was an officer in France's domestic intelligence agency.

He was caught selling secrets from police databases to shadowy private clients prepared to pay large sums.

As part of details revealed at his trial, one unknown client with the username "bidule7575" asked Boutry for information on Mr Farage and Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chief.

The client believed both Mr Manafort and Mr Farage were tax residents in France - which was not the case.

The mystery client who attempted to hack Mr Farage has never been publicly named.

Boutry traded on Black Hand, a French-language darknet marketplace, selling the bank details, phone records and GPS locations of named people for €100 to €300 a request, paid in bitcoin.

Investigators found that 90 per cent of the searches he ran on internal systems had nothing to do with his job.

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Boutry pleaded guilty to most charges, telling the court he had started selling to pay off debts and that it had become an “addiction”.

He was jailed for seven years, two suspended, and banned from the public service for life.

The sentence was unlawful, and on appeal at Versailles in November 2021 it was cut to five years.

Sir Richard Dearlove, former Head of MI6 told the People's Channel: "How did Boutry ever get through the DGSI vetting. Clearly of a criminal mentality.

"Lots of former intelligence officials work in the private sector to the highest standards. Boutry gives their profession a bad name.

"His activity really is extreme. I am surprised he isn’t inside for life. He may yet be!!"

The shocking security breach comes as Mr Farage's own safety in the UK has been constantly put at risk.

The Reform leader has revealed he received 597 death threats between February and July, among them a message reading: “Execute the stinking traitor Nigel Farage. TODAY.”

Mr Farage says he gets “about 300 threats a month, almost all through social media”, and has called himself “the most physically and verbally attacked politician of all time”.

In July he turned down a publicly funded protection package, reportedly a bodyguard, car and driver.

The threat to Mr Farage was made even more stark after the horrifying murder of Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative minister and Reform spokeswoman, who was found dead at her home in Devon on 9 July.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has promised a review of security for MPs.