Labour Party targeted in DDoS attack
Attack may be linked with complaints from activists that the portal for ordering election leaflets had failed
The Labour Party has today claimed to have suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
However, the Party claimed to have foiled the attack due to its "robust security systems" and reported the incident to the National Cyber Security Centre.
The alleged attack comes just one month before the General Election scheduled for 12th December.
A spokesperson added that they were confident that no data breach had occurred: "We have experienced a sophisticated and large scale cyber attack on Labour digital platforms. We took swift action and these attempts failed due to our robust security systems. The integrity of all our platforms was maintained and we are confident that no data breach occurred."
"Our security procedures have slowed down some of our campaign activities, but these were restored this morning and we are back up to full speed."
It's not clear whether the attack is linked with problems reported by activists in ordering leaflets prints for the election. One local campaign head complained via Twitter that "it hasn't been working properly and has now completely failed. Candidates can't get their leaflets off it & approved. It appears to have been hacked".
Activists going online to order leaflets via the Labour Party website were greeted with the message: "We are very sorry, but we are currently experience [sic] issues with Connects due to the large volume of users."
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