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Labour suffers ‘cyber attack’ ahead of polls

By Afp, London

Britain’s main opposition Labour party yesterday said it had suffered a “large-scale cyber attack” which undermined some of its campaign efforts for next month’s election. It said that some campaign activities were slowed on Monday but they were restored early yesterday and were now back to normal. Labour said it had reported the incident to the National Cyber Security Centre, which monitors and works to protect security systems.