Hacking attempts knock US FEC electronic filing system offline
Original title: Hacking attempts against US Federal Election Commission system triggered outage, email shows
The outage comes about a week before the November 3 elections; past reports remain searchable.
An email seen by Reuters says hacking attempts against the US Federal Election Commission disrupted its electronic filings system. The FEC said the system is offline and IT staff are working to restore it, while users can still search past reports. The agency declined further comment. The timing is a week before midterms that will decide control of Congress.
Unconfirmed: The report does not identify the attackers or say whether any data was accessed.
- The disruption affects the FEC system used for electronic candidate and committee filings.
- The FEC confirmed the filing system is offline but gave no further detail.
- Users can still search the website for previously filed reports.
Impact: Electronic filing system taken offline
- Organizations
- Federal Election Commission
- Countries
- United States
From the original article
2 min read at databreaches.netDawn Kopecki reports: The US Federal Election Commission’s website has been targeted by a hacker or hackers, disrupting the agency’s electronic filings system a week before the November 3 elections, according to an email seen by Reuters. In a statement, the FEC said that, “at this time, the FEC’s electronic filing system is currently offline...
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