On 08/29/2016 03:54 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 08/29/2016 06:30 PM, grarpamp wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-says-foreign-hackers-penetrated-0000001 75.html
https://s.yimg.com/dh/ap/politics/images/boe_flash_aug_2016_final.pdf
The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases...
This is an outrage! That information is supposed to cost money, dammit. It's public record and anyone can buy it, so the Russians had no business breaking in to copy it. Cheap bastards.
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There NOTHING here to indicate a hack no less a RUSSIAN hack except the FBI's "Suspected" say-so. "Matt Roberts, a spokesman for the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, said state authorities were notified last month by the FBI of the ***SUSPECTED*** hack, when it was discovered the username and password of a county election official were being circulated online." "...authorities ***BELIEVE*** the source of the attempted intrusion was a Russian hacker." This could have been a simple cybersecurity fuckup on the part of [username] http://www.azcentral.com/story/tech/news/2016/08/29/hackers-hit-arizona-illi...