Election Agency Hacked After the Vote

[DonViejo]

Source: Political Wire

December 16, 2016By Taegan Goddard

“The U.S. agency charged with ensuring that voting machines meet security standards was itself penetrated by a hacker after the November elections,” Reuters reports.

“Eventually they discovered that the Russian-speaking hacker had obtained the credentials of more than 100 people at the election commission after exploiting a common database vulnerability… The hacker was trying to sell information about the vulnerability to a Middle Eastern government for several thousand dollars.”

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Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/16/election-agency-hacked-vote/

[ffr]

1. So are we to believe this is an isolated incident?

We got fcuked bad by these hackers, to an extent historians will look back and say 'that was the beginning of the end.'

[frazzled]

2. It seems the only agency or system not to be hacked so far

is Hillary Clinton's private server. Or at least nothing has been leaked from it, regarding her time at State or anything else. Go figure: the endless talking point about careless security fell on her shoulders, and she seems to be the only one who has avoided it.

[pandr32]

3. Yep!

Nailed it!

[progressoid]

4. Heh. Funny.

No, wait. Sad.

[DK504]

8. If more servers where like

Hillary's we wouldn't get hacked. Seems they knew what the hell they were doing, why don't all agencies have their IT guy?

So when is this little tidbit going to come out? After the Twittler is sworn in? The regular media will hold on to this for a long time before "breaking the big news"??

[W T F]

5. Trumplicans are ok with that now, because they won.

[YOHABLO]

6. We have to get rid of these touch screen voting systems. We need to go to paper ballots.

The one thing we do know, is that the Republicans can only win through covert means and manipulation. It's time to throw down fellow Dems.

[Got it]

7. Obama Press Conference

How does this square with Obama's remarks, just moments ago stating (sorry, paraphrasing here) that there's zero evidence of any tampering? This news, and the ditty I read last night about a Wisconsin tabulator having cellular connectivity.

[leanforward]

11. I read the same article.

You would think the state and local folks would be more responsible, especially when you have to validate the count. I can just imagine some of the excuses of the responsible Clerks.

[Lulu KC]

12. I wondered about that, too

I can only think that the last thing the world needs to hear right now is that the president announced that votes were tampered. It was a judge he appointed who stopped the recount in MI. There is more here than meets the eye, and I trust him enough to have said that for a good reason, while not believing it for ONE minute. No, not even a second.

[Fast Walker 52]

9. Jesus, this is insane

[leanforward]

10. Who is staffing these Agencies?

I'm not a programmer. It would appear, this agency head would be a critical thinker, and have hired a resident security expert/hacker. Based on the narrative above, this should never have happened at the agency. What did this hacker do, dial in through the cell phone portal? What happened? Don't tell me, others are reading/watching.

[triron]

13. knr