The 14-month-long infiltration of the Electoral Commission’s IT system by hackers is “nearly unheard of” and exposes the vulnerability of official networks to more serious attacks, a cyber security expert told theipaper
revealed on Tuesday that personal details belonging to millions of voters could have been accessed by “hostile actors” during a breach that began in August 2021 but was not identified until October the following year.containing the names and addresses of people registered to vote between 2014 and 2022.that the breach was “extremely worrying” – less so for the data potentially accessed but because it went undetected for over a year.
“It was effectively a recce, a stakeout on a network from within to see exactly how it operates. The internet security software should have found it out much earlier – that’s where the embarrassment lies.” However, the information gained from monitoring how an IT system is maintained is potentially much more valuable to hackers, Mr Moore said, enabling them to plan future attacks on digital infrastructure.
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