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A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberattack at the U.K. Electoral Commission

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A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberattack at the U.K. Electoral Commission

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Parsing the UK electoral register cyberattack | TechCrunch

With data on more than 40 million voters accessed by unnamed hackers, the cyberattack is already one of the U.K.'s largest ever hacks.

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40 million. The population is 70 million, so that’s most, it not all eligible voters. Wow.

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