Elections watchdog says it is unable to say conclusively what information was accessed in cyber-attack
The UK’s elections watchdog has been targeted by a cyber-attack that enabled “hostile actors” to access electoral registers.
The Electoral Commission revealed it had been hacked but was “not able to know conclusively” what information had been accessed and said it apologised to people whose information was accessible to the hackers.
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