Electoral Commission hid details of a huge hack for a year, yet still tight-lipped
The Electoral Commission, the watchdog responsible for overseeing elections in the United Kingdom, confirmed in August that it had been targeted by “hostile actors” that accessed the personal details — including full names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and any personal images sent to the Commission — on as many as 40 million U.K. voters.
While it may sound like the Electoral Commission was upfront about the cyberattack and its impact, the incident occurred in August 2021 — some two years ago — when hackers first gained access to the Commission’s systems. It took another year for the Commission to catch the hackers in the act. The BBC reported the following month that the watchdog had failed a basic cybersecurity test around the same time hackers gained entry to the organization. It has not yet been revealed who carried out the intrusion — or if it is known — and how the Commission was breached.
Source : https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/29/badly-handled-data-breaches-2023/?guccounter=1
