A top Texas elections official says Russian hackers attempted to access voter registration rolls in Dallas County before November’s presidential election.
County elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October alerted elections offices about some 600 IP addresses linked to Russian hackers.
She told The Dallas Morning News that Dallas County scanned county servers for those IP addresses — numeric designations that identify a location on the internet — and found 17 matches for hackers who tried to gain access.
Federal authorities have confirmed some of those attempts came from Russian IP addresses.
Pippins-Poole says the hacking attempts failed.
Homeland Security officials said in September that hackers believed to be Russian agents had targeted voter registration systems in more than 20 states.
(AP)
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Another FAKE News. The only know attempted break-in into s voting system was done by US DHS.
#1 Exactly! I’m sure the Russians left their contact info, just in case.
Anyone familiar with IT knows that there are hundreds, if not thousands of attempts EVERY day to access unsecured systems. A proper firewall will mitigate that. Proper logging on any system can show that China, Africa, Amsterdam, North Korea, etc try to hack almost every single day. This is not something new, rather just a good way for FAKE NEWS to make headlines while distorting the truth and disrespecting their citizens with propaganda.