Yesterday the UK's election regulator, the Electoral Commission, announced that it was hacked in 2021. The breach took more than a year to find, and 10 more months for the public to be told.

According to a 2023 report from the Electoral Commission – the independent body which oversees elections and regulates political finance in the UK – potentially up to eight million people ...

The UK Electoral Commission said Tuesday that it fell victim to a cyberattack and that “hostile actors” were able to access copies of the electoral register, with the name and address of anyone ...

In March, the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) attributed the UK Electoral Commission breach to a Chinese state-backed threat actor. Tracked as CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523 ...

Campaigners have called for the Electoral Commission to be given powers to investigate discriminatory language used in campaigns after multiple Reform UK candidates were engulfed in racism rows.

Reform UK and Labour are neck and neck in the race ... Director of Communications at the Electoral Commission Niki Nixon said: “If you’re going along to your polling station to vote on ...

Reform UK’s surge is seen by many as a cause ... We believe the government needs to set up a ‘National Commission for Electoral Reform’ – an independent commission tasked with reviewing ...