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UK blames China for massive breach of voter data
It's the first time the United Kingdom has attributed the massive breach of millions of citizens' voter data since the cyberattack was first disclosed in 2023.
In a statement to lawmakers in Parliament on Monday, U.K. deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden attributed the 2021 data breach at the Electoral Commission to hackers working for the Chinese government. In a statement Monday, the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it is “highly likely” that the Chinese hackers accessed and exfiltrated emails and data from the electoral register during the hack. “The malicious activities we have exposed today are indicative of a wider pattern of unacceptable behaviour we are seeing from China state-affiliated actors against the UK and around the world,” said Paul Chichester, director of operations at NCSC.
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