US officials confirm cyberattacks on election websites in 鈥榟andful鈥� of states
Mississippi suffered largest 鈥榮ustained鈥� denial of service attack; no votes affected.
Mississippi suffered largest 鈥榮ustained鈥� denial of service attack; no votes affected.
Mississippi suffered largest 鈥榮ustained鈥� denial of service attack; no votes affected.
Federal cyber officials confirmed to Hearst Television鈥檚 National Investigative Unit that cyberattacks occurred on Election Day against a 鈥渉andful鈥� of state election websites, with the largest and most sustained attack coming against web pages in Mississippi.
Late Tuesday, the Mississippi Secretary of State鈥檚 office issued a joint statement with the state鈥檚 Department of Information Technology Services stressing that no votes were affected.
鈥淲e want to be extremely clear,鈥� the statement said, 鈥渙ur election system is secure and has not been compromised.鈥�
Several states, including Arizona and New Jersey, had election equipment malfunctions at some precincts that delayed some voting procedures, but a senior U.S. cyber official said they saw "no evidence" of any interference in those cases.
Election officials in those states attributed the outages to technical issues that they said they worked to resolve, pledging all cast ballots will be counted.
Chief National Investigative Correspondent Mark Albert is on the election security beat.
