In advance of the 2016 election, state election boards have been strongly warned to tighten up security. This warning came from the FBI’s Cyber Division after hackers accessed voter information. The Amber-level warning regarding security levels came after hackers were successful in stealing voter data from one state and failed in another attempt this month.
The Flash warning doesn’t explicitly cite which states’ databases were affected. However, back in July, Illinois’ voter registration database was hacked and subsequently was shut down for two weeks. The Illinois Board of Elections has blamed the incident on “foreign hackers,” but of course, this can be difficult to pin down. Theunsuccessful attempt was aimed at Arizona’s voter information.
The bulletin cited IP addresses that traced back to server hosting companies in England, the Netherlands, Scotland and the United States. That said, hackers could have rented severs from other companies in order to disguise their work. For the full article click here
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