Electoral Commission apologises for security breach involving UK voters’ data
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Names and addresses of 40 million registered voters were accessible as far back as 2021 after cyber-attack

The incident was identified in October 2022, but attackers first accessed the commission’s systems in August 2021.

The commission’s chief executive, Shaun McNally, said: “The UK’s democratic process is significantly dispersed and key aspects of it remain based on paper documentation and counting.

“This means it would be very hard to use a cyber-attack to influence the process. Nevertheless, the successful attack on the Electoral Commission highlights that organisations involved in elections remain a target, and need to remain vigilant to the risks to processes around our elections.”