The 2016 presidential election hack focused all 50 states.
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Russia seemingly focused election programs in all 50 states in 2016 [PDF], the Senate Intelligence Committee has revealed, indicating the interference was far wider than beforehand identified. The report printed Thursday additionally concluded that there was no proof that any votes have been modified.
“DHS assessed that the searches, achieved alphabetically, in all probability included all 50 states, and consisted of analysis on ‘normal election-related internet pages, voterID info, election system software program, and election service firms’,” the report says.
“Neither DHS nor the Committee can verify a sample to the states focused, lending credence to DHS’s later evaluation that each one 50 states in all probability have been scanned.”
In the course of the first identified breach by Russian state actors in Illinois in the course of the election, the report says, “Russian cyber actors have been able to delete or change voter knowledge, however the Committee shouldn’t be conscious of any proof that they did so.”
The closely redacted reported got here only a day after Robert Mueller, the previous particular counsel who investigated interference within the 2016 election, informed the Home of Representatives that Russia continues to be interfering in American democracy.
A report from two years in the past mentioned Russia’s election hacking had reached 39 states — which was practically double the quantity beforehand reported. That report got here simply days after a leaked Nationwide Safety Company report revealed widespread cyberattacks on greater than 100 native governments and a voting software program agency main as much as the 2016 election.
