https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/labour-party-cyber-attack-sophisticated > Early on Tuesday morning, the Labour Party’s head of campaigns, Niall Sookoo, sent out a mass email to supporters. “Yesterday afternoon,” Sookoo wrote, “our security systems identified that, in a very short period of time, there were large-scale and sophisticated attacks on Labour party platforms”. The attacks, he added, “had the intention of taking our systems entirely offline”. > The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has since described the incident as “suspicious”, while the party’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, said in a tweet that although no data had been breached, it was of “real concern”. But the timing of the announcement has aroused suspicion among some security researchers.