August 8, 2023

It is less than a year until the next general election in the UK and yet the country's Electoral Commission says it suffered a serious cyber attack by "hostile actors" that had access to personal information of the entire electoral database for over year.

A statement by the Commission, which is the independent body overseeing elections and regulates political finance in Britain, revealed that the database had initially been hacked in August 2021 before being recognized over a year later in October 2022.

A statement by the Commission on social media platform X, said: "Hostile actors were active in our systems and had access to servers which held our email, control systems, and copies of the electoral registers," it said in a series of posts on social media platform X.

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