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Britain blames China for hack that accessed data of millions of voters

“I can confirm today that Chinese state affiliated actors were responsible for two malicious cyber campaigns targeting our democratic institutions and parliamentarians,” British Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said. The allegations concerned a hack on the Electoral Commission, the independent agency tasked with setting standards for how UK elections should be run. The campaigns were said to have taken place between 2021 and 2022.