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 ...

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.

Basic security failings allowed hackers to access the personal details of 40 million British voters held by the UK’s Electoral Commission (EC), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...