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   UK Electoral Commission finally recovered from China hack after three years   
   and 250,000 grant   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:28:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   The commission was publicly reprimanded after the security failings.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   After three long years, the UKs Electoral Commission is finally fully   
   recovered after a cyberattack that left the organisation reeling.    
      
   The Commission was formally reprimanded by the Information Commissioners   
   Office over lapses in security that left millions of British voters    
   vulnerable to hackers.    
      
   Speaking to the BBC for the first time about the incident, the Electoral   
   Commission CEO Vijay Rangarajan, who was not CEO at the time of the attack,   
   says colleagues described the discovery of the hackers as "feeling like you'd   
   been burgled whilst still inside the house".   
      
   Insufficient protections    
      
   There were six by-elections held in the time where hackers were inside the IT   
   networks, but the Commission has confirmed there is no evidence of any   
   tampering.    
      
   The Commission used a 250,000 grant to aid its recovery, and is now spending   
   significantly more in its cybersecurity budget.    
      
   That being said, the commission is still not aware exactly what information   
   was exfiltrated or what the hackers goals were with the intrusion. There have   
   been examples of network intrusions with severe consequences, with government   
   agencies and public organisations hit by ransomware attacks across the world.    
      
   "All of this could have caused us amazing problems. It was a dangerous thing   
   to have happened," he said. "I don't think everyone realised quite how much   
   democratic systems and electoral systems were targets. We tended to be quite   
   comfortable in the way we run things. We now have to be really up to speed   
   with the threats," he said.    
      
   In the past few years, elections over the world have been targeted, and   
   governments have faced a huge surge in cyberattacks from threat actors    
   looking to disrupt democracy and undermine governments and processes.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/uk-electoral-commission-finally-recover   
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