Author: Kevin Drum / Source: Mother Jones
A few days ago the Intercept got hold of an NSA document outlining Russian plans to hack directly into voting operations throughout the US:
Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.
Today Bloomberg reports that this was just the tip of the iceberg:
Russia’s cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump’s election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.
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