Summary
Voters’ personal details stolen in cyber attack.
The Electoral Commission has revealed that they have been the subject of a ‘complex attack’ and hackers have accessed electoral registers. BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy and Mihaela Jembei from the Information Commissioner’s Office join Adam to discuss what we know so far, and who could be behind the breach.
Niger has closed its airspace as a military group continues their coup. CNN’s international correspondent, and friend of the podcast, Larry Madowo is on to talk about how Russia, France, and the US are all involved in the story.
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02:09 - Electoral Commission cyber attack 17:38 - Niger coup latest
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| 0:00.0 | BVC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello. |
| 0:06.2 | Now, if you were listening to the previous episode of newscast, you will have heard me reminiscing |
| 0:10.7 | with Professor Dame Jenny Harris, who is now head of the UK Health Security Agency, but |
| 0:16.0 | during the COVID pandemic or the early bit of the pandemic was the deputy chief medical |
| 0:20.2 | officer. |
| 0:21.2 | And remember, she gave some famous advice about relationships, which led us to coin the |
| 0:26.0 | phrase, Jenny Harris' marriages. |
| 0:28.5 | Well, I was asking her whether any of the Jenny Harris' marriages had led to Jenny |
| 0:33.6 | Harris' babies when Gabriella got in touch. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi newscast team. |
| 0:38.7 | I emailed about a year ago when Adam Quirige, if there were any Jenny Harris' marriages |
| 0:45.0 | due to the public health advice to test the strength of a romantic relationship. |
| 0:50.6 | My now husband, Jamie, moved in with me on our third date at the beginning of the first |
| 0:55.8 | COVID lockdown. |
| 0:57.7 | It turned out our relationship was pretty strong, so we married in October last year. |
| 1:02.9 | It was the best day of our lives, although this may soon be replaced. |
| 1:08.1 | In fact, it was quite coincidental. |
| 1:10.8 | I was just catching up on newscast as I came home from a midwife appointment today. |
| 1:16.2 | We do have a lovely update. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm currently 38 weeks pregnant, so we are expecting our first baby any day now. |
| 1:24.0 | We don't know yet if it's a girl or a boy, we're just so excited to meet them. |
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