The U.K. Electoral Commission suffered a “complex cyber-attack” in 2021, resulting in hackers accessing sensitive voter information. In a statement released Tuesday, the commission said the agency had detected the hack in October 2022, almost one year after the attackers compromised its network in August 2021. Shaun McNally, the Electoral Commission’s chief executive officer, said […]
If you were worried that hackers might wipe millions of iPhones, Macs and iCloud accounts there’s some good news today. A group calling itself the “Turkish Crime Family” was claiming to have a stolen database of millions of Apple customer credentials, and threatening to wipe them remotely unless Apple agreed to pay a ransom demand by April 7th.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, said it had become the latest global institution to suffer a “major” cyber attack.
The Vienna-based OSCE has its origins in the Cold War but after 1991 it expanded and now has 57 member states including the United States, Russia and Ukraine.
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