So the Russians DID have ability to hack vote tallies (NYT)

[Oneironaut]

83. This is an article everyone should read first before making assumptions.

It doesn’t seem the hackers had access to vote totals - only voter registration records. However, I find this unforgivable. Data so precious should at least be accessed with an enhanced security ID with 2-Factor Authentication. I find it ridiculous a mundane spear-phishing operation could lead to a government voter database being compromised. This is outrageous!

This speaks more to bad security hygiene if true. I’m shocked this data isn’t more protected - seems like it’s vulnerable to other attacks as well (like ransom attacks).

What Russia did here isn’t at all impressive. My response is more “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me” if this article is 100% accurate.

Finally, I’m also curious how Rubio made the determination that the data could be updated and deleted by the compromised credentials. There is information missing here. I’m skeptical of his remarks until / if further information comes out.