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Cyberattack on Florida election is first reported case of cyberattack against election system: NBCNews

Gil Aegerter reports for NBCNews that someone used a computer program  to make more than 2,500 “phantom requests” on a Florida elections website.  The requests came from “a small number of computer[s] in Ireland, England, India and other overseas locations.  . . .” Though a relatively vanilla attack by today’s standards, the article noted that this was the first reported cyberattack on an online U.S. election related system.

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