The Electoral Commission apologised for the breach but said much of the information was already in the public domain and that the names and addresses of people who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022 was unlikely to be used by"hostile actors” to sway election results.
"The UK’s democratic process is significantly dispersed and key aspects of it remain based on paper documentation and counting," said Shaun McNally, the commission’s chief executive."This means it would be very hard to use a cyber-attack to influence the process." quoted the commission as saying that it did not report the attack immediately to the public because it needed to break off the access the hackers had, determine the extent of the breach and work with the ICO and National Cyber Security Centre to improve security.
The hack exposed reference copies of the electoral registers used by the commission for research and to check if political donations are allowed. Each register holds the information of about 40 million people.While the commission knows what systems could be seen by the hackers, it does not know what files were accessed, McNally said. The commission's information technology security has been improved since the attack, he added.
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