{"id":11139,"date":"2023-08-09T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/hacked-uk-voter-data-could-be-used-to-target-disinformation-warn-experts\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:37:42","slug":"hacked-uk-voter-data-could-be-used-to-target-disinformation-warn-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/hacked-uk-voter-data-could-be-used-to-target-disinformation-warn-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked UK voter data could be used to target disinformation, warn experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from Electoral Commission breach could allow rogue actors to create AI-generated messages in effort to manipulate elections<\/p>\n<p>Data accessed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/08\/uk-electoral-commission-registers-targeted-by-hostile-hackers\">Electoral Commission hack<\/a> could help state-backed actors target voters with AI-generated disinformation, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>The UK elections watchdog revealed on Tuesday that a hostile cyber-attack had been able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/aug\/09\/electoral-commission-and-psni-data-breaches-what-we-know-so-far\">access the names and addresses of all voters registered between 2014 and 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/aug\/09\/hacked-uk-electoral-commission-data-target-voter-disinformation-warn-expert\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e3a4117d0d1d6b57e6f6e86fb20b5dba5041e44d\/0_267_8060_4839\/master\/8060.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e59221c433d91d00c2256e3777b10f6\" title=\"Hacked UK voter data could be used to target disinformation, warn experts\" \/>Data from Electoral Commission breach could allow rogue actors to create AI-generated messages in effort to manipulate elections<br \/>\nData accessed in the Electoral Commission hack could help state-backed actors target voters with AI-generated disinformation, experts have warned.<br \/>\nThe UK elections watchdog revealed on Tuesday that a hostile cyber-attack had been able to access the names and addresses of all voters registered between 2014 and 2022. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from Electoral Commission breach could allow rogue actors to create AI-generated messages in effort to manipulate elections Data accessed in the Electoral Commission hack could help state-backed actors target voters with AI-generated disinformation, experts have warned. The UK elections watchdog revealed on Tuesday that a hostile cyber-attack had been able to access the names &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/hacked-uk-voter-data-could-be-used-to-target-disinformation-warn-experts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hacked UK voter data could be used to target disinformation, warn experts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11140,"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\/11139"}],"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=11139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}