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Every year local government bodies or councils across Britain contact residents, asking them to update their voter details on the electoral register if these have changed. To do so, residents are asked to visit HouseholdResponse.com, a domain that looks anything but official and has often confused people, who mistake it for a scam. [...]

ProxyNotShell vulnerability could be how UK body got pwned, suggests infosec expert The hacking of the UK’s Electoral Commission was potentially facilitated by the exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, according to a security expert.…

Technology secretary branded “delusion”

At least it was a blunder and not a hostile attack, unlike what happened to another UK public body this week A spreadsheet containing details of serving Northern Ireland police officers was mistakenly posted online yesterday, potentially endangering the safety of officers, given the volatile politics of the region.…

UK financial regulator in new consumer awareness campaign

'It doesn't help if the organization responsible for the integrity of elections' gets pwned The UK's Electoral Commission has been the subject of an online attack that may have exposed the names and addresses of voters, as well as the Commission's email system and unspecified other systems.…

The attackers accessed personal data of anyone in the UK who was registered to vote between 2014 and 2022

The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal information of anyone who registered to vote in the United Kingdom between 2014 and 2022. [...]

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