A major data breach has left the personal information of around 40 million UK voters exposed for over a year, according to the country’s Electoral Commission. The agency, responsible for regulating party and election finance, detected suspicious activity on its network in October 2022, but the breach actually occurred in August 2021. The hackers successfully breached the Electoral Commission’s servers, gaining access to email and control systems, as well as copies of the electoral registers. Thankfully, details of political parties’ donations and loans were not affected as they are stored separately.
