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It's taken three years to recover from China hack, election watchdog says
In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.
The UK's elections watchdog says it's taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack that saw the private details of 40m voters accessed by Chinese cyber spies. Last year, the Electoral Commission was publicly reprimanded for a litany of security failures that allowed hacking groups to spy undetected, after breaking into databases and email systems. The Information Commissioner's office issued a formal reprimand to the Electoral Commission but if equivalent mistakes were made in a private sector breach it would likely have led to a large fine.
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