Foreign hackers may have targeted the British government’s voter registration site before Brexit | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Foreign hackers may have targeted the British government’s voter registration site before the Brexit referendum last June, a committee of MPs has said. On June 7, 2016, the “register to vote” website was temporarily inaccessible due to technical problems. This was the last day people could register to have a vote in the June 23 referendum…

London (dpa) – Foreign hackers could have caused a website to crash during final voter registration for last year’s Brexit referendum, despite the government blaming system overload for the problem, British lawmakers reported on Wednesday. After the voter registration website crashed in the final two hours last June, the government extended the deadline by 48 hours…