Security News > 2023 > August > UK Electoral Commission data breach exposes 8 years of voter data
The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal information of anyone who registered to vote in the United Kingdom between 2014 and 2022.
The disclosure comes ten months after the Commission first detected the breach and two years after the initial breach occurred, raising questions about why it took so long to report the incident to the public.
"They were able to access reference copies of the electoral registers, held by the Commission for research purposes and to enable permissibility checks on political donations," warns the data breach notification.
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