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Title: Report: Up to 10 states have experienced election-related hacking
Post by: Free Vulcan on October 02, 2016, 09:03:00 pm
By Eric DuVall, UPI,  9/29/16

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) — As many as 10 state election databases have been hacked, not only the two previously reported in Illinois and Arizona, according to a report by CBS News.

The hacks come as officials in the Justice Department and Homeland Security warn state and local officials of the threat posed by hackers seeking access to the nation’s election database.

The CBS report did not identify exactly how many states have been hacked, nor which ones. But according to multiple anonymous national security officials, as many as 10 have experienced some sort of hack...

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