Russian Hackers Targeted Nearly Half of States' Voter Reg Systems, Successfully Infiltrated 4

[factfinder_77]

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Source: ABCNEWS

Nearly half of the states in the U.S. have recently had their voter registration systems targeted by foreign hackers, and four of those systems have successfully been breached, sources tell ABC News. That amount of targeting and actual infiltration into state election-related systems is significantly larger than the U.S. government has been willing to acknowledge.
Hackers working on behalf of the Russian government are suspected in the onslaught against more than 20 state election systems, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/russian-hackers-targeted-half-states-voter-registration-systems/story?id=42435822

[Hugin]

1. Probably more that those 4, but, the FBI was busy looking for or faking emails.

I suppose.

[Kber]

2. How is this not a hostile act?

Similar to, say, encroaching on our air space?

[renate]

3. wow... this is beyond alarming

Putin REALLY wants Trump to win.

Which is no surprise but, in light of how much he wants it to happen, the idea of what might follow if he manages to get Trump elected is terrifying.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I sort of knew something was amiss

when the defenders of Melania's Michelle Obama speech could barely
use the English language. This was on an ABC affiliate discussion board
at the time. This hacker came on and replied to every post that was
critical of the speech by saying Michelle Obama herself had plagiarized
the speech from a book published before 2008. A couple of us jumped
on that assertion -- you mean no one has noticed this before now, 9
years later??? The hacker never answered and left.

[moonscape]

5. Sept 29th is not LBN ... read it then. n/t

[Foggyhill]

6. But, hey, emails that possibly, maybe are tangentially linked to Clinton take the priority.

The FBI is now making me sick.


Infiltrating is kinda vague, there are some that are almost benign wile others can be catastrophic

[bushisanidiot]

7. At this point, I don't trust the FBI at all. They could easily do some dirty work and blame

it on russian hackers to cover their tracks.

[OKNancy]

8. Locking

way over the 12 hour LBN limit. date is Sept 29th