‘Hostile actors’ had access to U.K.’s Electoral Commission for over a year
has been hacked by “hostile actors” who had access to its system and emails for over a year — and the agency cannot conclusively say what files were accessed, it said Tuesday.
“Today we announced that we have been the subject of a complex cyber-attack, and our systems were accessed by hostile actors,” the Commission said in a post on X, the social media platform formerly called Twitter. “Hostile actors were active in our systems and had access to servers which held our email, control systems, and copies of the electoral registers.”The Electoral Commission is an independent agency that sets the standards of the U.K.’s elections, as well as watches over party finances, similar to Elections Canada.
The hackers were able to access copies of electoral registers, which include the name and address of anyone in the U.K. who was registered to vote between 2014 and 2022, as well as the names of those registered as overseas voters. The Commission’s email system was also accessible during the attack, it said. The registers did not include the details of anonymous voters.
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