FBI suspects Russians hacked 'at least one' Florida county, Mueller report says

[RandySF]

The FBI believes that Russian hackers were able to breach “at least one” Florida county government through a spearphishing campaign targeting local election officials, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

Mueller’s team “did not independent verify that belief,” the report said, because DHS and the FBI were already investigating the attempted intrusions into election offices and voting technology companies.

Last August, then-Florida Sen. Bill Nelson faced criticism for saying cryptically that the Russians had accessed his state’s voter data.

The Russian hackers sent spearphishing emails to more than 120 email accounts operated by Florida county election officials, according to the redacted report.

The report offers specific figures for several previously revealed elements of the hacking campaign. For example, the Russian hackers compromised 29 different computers at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and stole more than 70 gigabytes of files from the group’s shared file server.



https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/fbi-russians-hacked-florida-vote-mueller-report-1281159

[dewsgirl]

1. I bet it's Miami-Dade.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, and according to some on DU Russia hacked these systems ... looked around and just

... left all the data alone and didn't copy or alter anything in any way.

This is some bullshit

[dewsgirl]

5. It is some serious BS indeed.

[Eko]

13. Never seen anyone here say that.

Can you provide some links?

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Could have made a difference in our governorship and Senate race.

[dewsgirl]

6. Yes, unfortunately.

[uponit7771]

9. If you're talking about GA I think this is exactly what happened. Their systems were wide open

... and of course its a red state.

I wonder if they do a compliance test all the Red States would fail 100%

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Florida.

But, yes, Georgia was highly suspicious.

[delisen]

3. More to come on actual point of vote changes to put Republicans in office?

[dewsgirl]

8. I would hope, God knows when.

[saidsimplesimon]

7. We have a Russian troll for President.

Putin is the winner, rumpie is his lap dog. How the mighty have fallen. I weep and grieve for the what could have been.

It's time for me to stop grieving. My goals are not political, they are humanitarian in these days of dystopian, rumpie insanity.

[Dawson Leery]

10. All they would have to do is delete names in voter rolls

from blue counties (aids on the ground would give the data to the Russkies) and that's the end of it.
100K Democratic voters deleted in a couple of swing states hands the election to the Repubs.

[ZillyZap]

12. Was it a paper ballot or DRE County?

[gopiscrap]

15. welcome to DU

[triron]

14. Exit polls showed Hillary winning Florida. Also Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for sure.

Michigan was a toss up.