{"id":11107,"date":"2023-08-08T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/registers-of-uk-electoral-commission-hacked-by-hostile-actors\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:37:20","slug":"registers-of-uk-electoral-commission-hacked-by-hostile-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/registers-of-uk-electoral-commission-hacked-by-hostile-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Registers of UK Electoral Commission hacked by \u2018hostile actors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Elections watchdog says it is unable to say conclusively what information was accessed in cyber-attack<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s elections watchdog has been targeted by a cyber-attack that enabled \u201chostile actors\u201d to access electoral registers.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission revealed it had been hacked but was \u201cnot able to know conclusively\u201d what information had been accessed and said it apologised to people whose information was accessible to the hackers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/08\/uk-electoral-commission-registers-targeted-by-hostile-hackers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/797b7ffb60d6eb90140e36c3ab8c47b8e196d82c\/69_0_2070_1242\/master\/2070.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6dbf471a8cbff93fb909b80112961d45\" title=\"Registers of UK Electoral Commission hacked by \u2018hostile actors\u2019\" \/>Elections watchdog says it is unable to say conclusively what information was accessed in cyber-attack<br \/>\nThe UK\u2019s elections watchdog has been targeted by a cyber-attack that enabled \u201chostile actors\u201d to access electoral registers.<br \/>\nThe Electoral Commission revealed it had been hacked but was \u201cnot able to know conclusively\u201d what information had been accessed and said it apologised to people whose information was accessible to the hackers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections watchdog says it is unable to say conclusively what information was accessed in cyber-attack The UK\u2019s elections watchdog has been targeted by a cyber-attack that enabled \u201chostile actors\u201d to access electoral registers. The Electoral Commission revealed it had been hacked but was \u201cnot able to know conclusively\u201d what information had been accessed and said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/registers-of-uk-electoral-commission-hacked-by-hostile-actors\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Registers of UK Electoral Commission hacked by \u2018hostile actors\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}