{"id":11113,"date":"2023-08-08T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/mps-fiddled-with-voter-id-as-electoral-data-security-burned\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:38:12","slug":"mps-fiddled-with-voter-id-as-electoral-data-security-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/mps-fiddled-with-voter-id-as-electoral-data-security-burned\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs fiddled with voter ID as electoral data security burned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral Commission hack is reminder of importance of protecting democratic system where it counts<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that while Conservative ministers were spending hours of parliamentary time in 2021-22 introducing requirements for voters to produce ID at polling stations \u2013 to protect elections against a threat most experts believed was negligible \u2013 the Electoral Commission was being hacked by \u201chostile actors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These hackers, who have not been identified and whose motivations are unclear, were able to access the data, such as home addresses, of millions of voters, many of whom choose not to make that information publicly available.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/08\/mps-fiddled-with-voter-id-as-electoral-data-security-burned-electoral-commission-hack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e69d9aa1aa831d787f05ce017c1ed02d53f59a2b\/0_274_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=aa0225bed469c3c4399f83454e99f2b6\" title=\"MPs fiddled with voter ID as electoral data security burned\" \/>Electoral Commission hack is reminder of importance of protecting democratic system where it counts<br \/>\nIt turns out that while Conservative ministers were spending hours of parliamentary time in 2021-22 introducing requirements for voters to produce ID at polling stations \u2013 to protect elections against a threat most experts believed was negligible \u2013 the Electoral Commission was being hacked by \u201chostile actors\u201d.<br \/>\nThese hackers, who have not been identified and whose motivations are unclear, were able to access the data, such as home addresses, of millions of voters, many of whom choose not to make that information publicly available. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral Commission hack is reminder of importance of protecting democratic system where it counts It turns out that while Conservative ministers were spending hours of parliamentary time in 2021-22 introducing requirements for voters to produce ID at polling stations \u2013 to protect elections against a threat most experts believed was negligible \u2013 the Electoral Commission &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/mps-fiddled-with-voter-id-as-electoral-data-security-burned\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MPs fiddled with voter ID as electoral data security burned<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11114,"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\/11113"}],"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=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}