UK’s Labour Party hit by ‘cyber-attack’

The UK’s opposition Labour Party has revealed it became the target of a “large-scale and sophisticated cyber-attack” on its digital platforms, the media reported.

The attacks did not lead to any data breach as, according to the party, its “robust” security system foiled the attempt to disrupt the functioning of the party’s digital systems, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

In a letter sent to Labour campaigners, Niall Sookoo, the party’s executive director of elections and campaigns, said: “Yesterday afternoon our security systems identified that, in a very short period of time, there were large-scale and sophisticated attacks on Labour Party platforms which had the intention of taking our systems entirely offline.