Elections watchdog reveals it was hit by cyber attack

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Elections watchdog reveals it was hit by cyber attack
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The Electoral Commission said 'hostile actors' first gained access to its systems in August 2021.

Britain's elections watchdog has revealed it was the victim of a "complex cyber-attack" first identified in October last year.

The Electoral Commission said unspecified "hostile actors" had managed to gain access to copies of the electoral registers.The watchdog said it was hard to know exactly what files were accessed.

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