A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberattack at the U.K. Electoral Commission. With data on more than 40 million ...

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.

I could privately mount a criminal prosecution but the Electoral Commission isn't allowed to, which is perverse. Duncan Hames, Transparency International UK He said the regulator can only impose ...

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 ...

Vijay Rangarajan, the chief executive of the Electoral Commission, has emphasised the ... He said that it was "crucial" for UK voters to have "trust in the financing" of the political arena.

The Electoral Commission has called for changes to legislation ... Duncan Hames, director of policy and programmes at Transparency International UK, earlier told the committee that it has become ...