In August 2016 GRU attacked [REDACTED], a maker of voter software and installed malware [View all]

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I'm reading people here thinking the GRU's reach just was to social media in 2016, the GRU (Russia's CIA) went way beyond social media and hacked into voter systems and voter roll ... SYSTEMS.

Red Don's campaign colluding with Russia is more than just social media and stupid people giving the Russians polling data.

https://www.kunc.org/post/highlights-mueller-report-annotated#stream/0

Unit 74455 also sent spearphishing emails to public officials involved in election administration and personnel at companies involved in voting technology. In August 2016, GRU officers targeted employees of REDACTED, a voting technology company that developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls, and installed malware on the company network.

[ The company referenced here seems to be VR Systems, a Florida-based company that makes voter registration equipment.

In an interview with NPR's Pam Fessler six months after the 2016 election, the company's chief operating officer said Russian hackers were unsuccessful in breaking into their systems. But today's report, and an indictment filed last summer by Mueller's team, disagree.

One of the tough contradictions about American voting is the transparency, or lack thereof, from the companies responsible for election security.

Even though elections are technically supervised at the state and local levels, in most cases the equipment that voters use to cast their ballots, have their votes counted and to check-in at the polls is run by companies in the private sector. That makes forcing them to provide information about potential breaches, or their own security practices, incredibly difficult.

"There is far too little transparency from voting machine vendors about whether their products are secure against hackers and foreign interference," Sen. Ron Wyden told NPR ahead of the report's public release. "Over and over again the corporations that are essentially gatekeepers of our democracy have either lied or refused to answer questions from me, from states and from security experts about what steps they've taken to protect our election infrastructure. I am convinced we cannot rely on these companies to do the right thing on their own." — Miles Parks ]