The United Kingdom’s Electoral Commission, which oversees the country’s elections, announced on Tuesday that it had suffered a cyber attack by “hostile actors” who accessed its computer system for more than a year.
“We were the target of a complex cyber attack, and hostile actors had access to our systems,” the independent organization wrote on social network X (formerly Twitter), without revealing the identity of the authors of the attack who accessed the servers. Specifically, it contains copies of voter registers containing the personal data of millions of voters.
