UK Electoral Commission hack exposed data of 40 million voters

The personal details of around 40 million UK voters were compromised due to a “complex cyberattack” on the Electoral Commission.

The Electoral Commission is responsible for supervising elections in the country, and it confirmed on Wednesday that it had detected suspicious activity on its network in October 2022. However, it was later discovered that unidentified “hostile actors” had gained access to its systems over a year earlier, in August 2021.

The regulatory body says that the attack was detected and reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Crime Agency within 72 hours.