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Online security lapses led to data of 40m UK voters being hacked, says ICO
Watchdog reprimands Electoral Commission for not being up to date with security updates before hack in August 2021
The Information Commissioner’s Office said the Electoral Commission had not kept its servers up to date with the latest security updates before the data breach, which occurred in August 2021 but was not identified until October 2022. Earlier this year, the Conservative government blamed the data breach on Chinese hackers and summoned Beijing’s ambassador to the UK to explain his country’s actions. Stephen Bonner, a deputy commissioner at the ICO, said in a statement on Tuesday: “If the Electoral Commission had taken basic steps to protect its systems, such as effective security patching and password management, it is highly likely that this data breach would not have happened.
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