In an open letter, the UK media watchdog said that while new safety duties under the legislation will be in place in a few months, there is no need for platforms to wait to make their sites and apps safer for users.
The Electoral Commission has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after hackers gained access to servers that contained the personal information of around 40 million people.
CrowdStrike has said it will improve software testing procedures after its systems crashed last week, causing an IT outage which impacted thousands of organisations around the world.
The issue has been linked to a security update of CrowdStrike's Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution, which has impacted Microsoft’s services.