FBI says foreign hackers have penetrated US state election databases.

[Razer]

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.
> 
> :o(
> 
> 
> 

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-illinois-voter-databases/89547326/