Report: Russians hacked US voting systems maker just before election

[mystery-ak]

Report: Russians hacked US voting systems maker just before election
By Joe Uchill - 06/05/17 04:59 PM EDT

Russian intelligence agents hacked a U.S. voting systems manufacturer in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, according to a National Security Agency investigation report leaked to The Intercept.

The Intercept reported Monday that the NSA believes hackers used that breach to obtain information used to spearphish its customers.

The report, marked top secret and only to be shared with the "Five Eyes" nations (Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia), claims the Russian intelligence agency GRU targeted more than 120 email addresses associated with local government organizations, which it speculates were taken from the earlier hack.

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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/336422-russian-intelligence-hacked-voting-systems-maker-spearphished-its

[Sanguine]

...The report does not claim that voting machines were hacked, a once-popular post-election theory from Democrats, nor does it state whether the information pertaining to the voting systems could be used to hack those systems. 

According to the document, the investigation only began in the last few months. The document claims the investigation was spurred by "information that became available in April 2017."

[Victoria33]

Report: Russians hacked US voting systems maker just before election
By Joe Uchill - 06/05/17 04:59 PM EDT  Russian intelligence agents hacked a U.S. voting systems manufacturer in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, according to a National Security Agency investigation report leaked to The Intercept.
The Intercept reported Monday that the NSA believes hackers used that breach to obtain information used to spearphish its customers.  The report, marked top secret and only to be shared with the "Five Eyes" nations (Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia), claims the Russian intelligence agency GRU targeted more than 120 email addresses associated with local government organizations, which it speculates were taken from the earlier hack.

@mystery-ak

Voting machines are not connected to the internet. A Russian would have to go to a county, get inside a locked room, and physically put his/her hands on the machine, plug it in the wall to turn it on,  to do anything to that one machine. 

[edpc]

@mystery-ak Voting machines are not connected to the internet. A Russian would have to go to a county, get inside a locked room, and physically put his/her hands on the machine, plug it in the wall to turn it on,  to do anything to that one machine.

Correct, but that won't stop the left from hyperventilating, anyway.