Posted on 07/14/2018 10:12:14 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Illinois state election board said Friday that it is likely the state referred to in special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest indictment as having been hacked into by Russian intelligence officers, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Illinois officials said Friday that they had requested confirmation from the Justice Department that it was the state mentioned in the indictment.
The hack has been public knowledge for nearly two years, with the FBI issuing an alert about the cyber attack in August 2016, one month after it took place.
“We are grateful that DOJ has identified who the perpetrators are,” state election board spokesman Matt Dietrich said, according to the Tribune. “We never had anything on paper until today, and even then we don't have a firm statement saying ‘Yes, it’s you,’ although we think it’s more than likely ‘yes.’ ”
Mueller charged a Russian intelligence officer with hacking into a state’s elections board website and sending spear-phishing emails to state elections officials.
The indictment states that hackers obtained private information on about 500,000 voters in the cyber attack, including names, dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers.
Dietrich said officials think that number is closer to 76,000 than 500,00 but that federal officials may have “arrived at using a different methodology prescribed under federal criminal code.”
He added that none of the notified voters have reported suspicious activity to the state, according to the Tribune.
Twelve Russian intelligence officers were charged Friday in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
I’d forgotten about that.
The mob delivered Illinois to Kennedy in 1960
True.
This is surprising since Hillary won Illinois. Perhaps the Russians were in collusion with Hillary?
I am in cyber security and you are correct, its all day, all night.
Patriots are reminded that there is more than one way to hack an election.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
We really to get rid of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
As someone who has served as a republican election judge in Chicago, I sincerely hope this is true and that Russians have shared or will share what they know with wikileaks or a similar organization. For more than a decade I have begged and pleaded with the Cook County Board of Elections to clean the voter rolls, eliminate duplicates and take away incorrect names (there are two voters in one house in my district named Robert Rosen and Mr. Rosen has written letters and asked that the Robert P. Rosen named be taken away to no avail). There are serious problems with the voter rolls and exposing what these democrat hacks in the Board of Elections allow would be a great feat of journalism.
With a deal, Trump could come back from Russia with interesting transcripts. :)
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