UK govt links 2021 Electoral Commission breach to Exchange serverbleepingcomputer.com - The breach of the U.K. Electoral Commission in August 2021 was attributed to a Chinese state-backed threat actor and was enabled due to the failure to patch its on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server ag... Show more
Aug 08, 2023
Official Report
Public notification of cyber-attack on Electoral Commission systemselectoralcommission.org.uk - Hostile actors accessed the UK Electoral Commission’s systems in August 2021, but the breach was only identified in October 2022, exposing names, addresses, and email details from the electoral regist... Show more
Organization Details
Organization Size
143
HQ Location
London
Industry
Governments
Security Stack used by The Electoral Commission at time of breach (best approximation) Why?
In the United Kingdom, the Electoral Commission is the national election commission, created in 2001 as a result of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. It is an independent agency that regulates party and election finance and sets standards for how elections should be run.