Labour has suffered a second cyber attack on its digital platforms within the space of 24 hours, the party said.
A party spokeswoman said the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident was being dealt with “quickly and efficiently”. It is understood this was a relatively “low level” attack.
The National Cyber Security Centre confirmed it would not be investigating the matter further, while a source said there was no evidence of “state-sponsored activity”.
DDoS attacks - where hackers flood a target’s online platforms with traffic from various sources, causing them to slow or crash - are considered relatively common.
Following the latest incident, a Labour spokeswoman said: “We have ongoing security processes in place to protect our platforms, so users may be experiencing some differences.”
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