Washington: Iranian infiltrators gaining access to voter data
US officials said late Friday that Iranian hackers who sent threatening messages to thousands of Americans earlier this month had gained access to the data of a number of voters.
A joint statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internet Security Agency at the Ministry of Homeland Security confirmed the authenticity of a portion of a video clip distributed as part of a disinformation campaign that received brief attention after its disclosure a few days ago.
The campaign is made up of thousands of threatening messages sent randomly to US voters in the name of a hard-line group supporting US President Donald Trump, and it showed a video clip explaining how hackers could wreak havoc by hacking voter registration records.
Experts who examined the clip said it was an attempt to raise voter concern about the election's fairness.
The office and the Ministry of Homeland Security confirmed that “the perpetrator succeeded in obtaining voter registration data in at least one state”.
The statement did not name the state, but the video clip showed what was supposed to be details about Alaska voters.
Neither the office nor the ministry has yet responded to a request for comment.
The US authorities are preparing to confront any possible cyber infiltration in the presidential elections scheduled for the third of November.
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