Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data

Oxford City Council says a cyberattack earlier this month resulted in 21 years of data being compromised.

It said "some historic data on legacy systems" was accessed by unauthorized attackers, namely the personal information of people who worked on council-administered elections between 2001 and 2022.

The majority of those affected are thought to be either current or former council officers, and the authority assured the public that the incident was limited in scope.

According to a statement posted to the council's website on Thursday, "there is no evidence to suggest that any of the accessed information has been shared with third parties.

"Investigations continue to identify as precisely as we can what was accessed and what, if anything, might have been taken out of our systems. There is no evidence of a mass download or extraction of data.

"We understand that people will be concerned and today we have ...