Knox County election hit by cyber attack
The computers are back up and running at the Knox County Election Office after a cyber attack delayed but did not change election results.
Dick Moran, head of IT for Knox County, called it a widespread denial of service attack, which means multiple compromised computer systems attack a target, such as a server, website or other network resource. That causes a denial of service for legitimate users of the system. The flood of incoming messages and connection requests forces the computer to slow down or even crash.
It's not known yet who is behind the attack, but someone did it on purpose.
"It was a deliberate attack. No question," said Moran.
The attack likely came from both inside and outside the country. Moran said there's no way to prepare for something like this.
The computers were done for about an hour and a half, but there's no guarantee that the attack won't start again.
The election results are not impacted by the attack in any way.
A county spokesperson told 10News that they will meet with law enforcement, the D.A's office, and IT security contractors as soon as possible.
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