DHS exec: Russians penetrated US voter registrations in '16

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: February 7, 2018 at 5:20:16 PM EST
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: DHS exec:  Russians penetrated US voter registrations in '16
>
> REAKING
> Politics
> Feb 7 2018, 5:01 pm ET
> Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, says top U.S. official
>
> by Cynthia McFadden, William M. Arkin and Kevin Monahan
>
>
> The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated 
> the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.
>
> In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland 
> Security, said she couldn't talk about classified information publicly, but in 2016, "We saw a targeting of 21 states 
> and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated."
>
> Jeh Johnson, who was DHS secretary during the Russian intrusions, said, "2016 was a wake-up call and now it's 
> incumbent upon states and the Feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again."
>
> "We were able to determine that the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the Russian 
> government."
>
> NBC News reported in Sept. 2016 that more than 20 states had been targeted by the Russians.
>
> There is no evidence that any of the registration rolls were altered in any fashion, according to U.S. officials.
>
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> https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/eric-holder-leads-democrats-war-gerrymandering-n845576



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