Hackers hack into election data in Arizona and Illinois
In Illinios and Arizona a group of hackers have broken into the election system leaving arround 200,000 voters records possibly open to the hackers. The FBI is currently searching for who was responsible for the breach. Apparently the breach happened in june,but the breach wasn't even noriced until late july! According to the Officials with the Bord of Elections they say there is a slim chance they were able to tamper with the votes and say they are confident the did not, but they are still continuing the investigation. The possibly compromised records of the voters contain their adress, birthday, possibly the last four numbersof their social security number, and a large ammount of other personal information.
Sorry i forgot to post the link to the full story, here it is http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/politics/hackers-breach-illinois-arizona-election-systems/
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