Labour hit by ‘large scale cyber-attack’ for second time in 24 hours

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The party confirmed it had suffered a “sophisticated and large-scale” attack on Monday, with a second hit following on Tuesday afternoon. Labour said the attack failed due to the party’s “robust” security systems and it was confident that no data breach had occurred. The National Cyber Security Centre, which is investigating the first attack on Labour, said it was relatively “low level” with no evidence of “state- And a security official told The Independent: “This is seen as a low-level denial of service attempt with no evidence of it being carried out by a state actor.” Jeremy Corbyn described the first incident as “very serious” and admitted the timing of the attack made him “nervous”. “So far as we’re aware, none of our information was downloaded and the attack was actually repulsed because we have an effective in-house developed system by people within our party.