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.

The Electoral Commission, which oversees UK elections, has been formally reprimanded by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) over the security lapse. Beginning in August 2021 cyber-attackers ...

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 ...