Risk of cyber-attack is main Eurovision worry, says BBC executive

Hosts Julia Sanina and Hannah Waddingham announcing voting has closed during the first semi-final on Tuesday. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

The risk of a cyber-attack is the “main worry” for broadcasters staging the Eurovision song contest on behalf of war-torn Ukraine, a BBC executive has said.

Experts from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre have been drafted in to help thwart any attempts by pro-Russian hackers to sabotage the competition’s public vote on Saturday.