Election office reports failed attempts to hack its online services
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ByDavid DiMolfetta,
Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
November 3, 2026 11:42 PM ET
A state election office also saw five spikes in traffic to its ballot drop box locator on Election Day. By 9:30 p.m. EST, analysts had received no reports of a foreign influence operation.
An election office reported that someone probed its online services for weaknesses and tried unsuccessfully to break in Tuesday, while hackers made multiple attempts to guess login credentials at an agency involved in elections, according to an election security report issued Tuesday night.
The findings from the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center offered a fuller picture of the cyber activity election officials have seen as Americans vote in the 2026 midterms.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Monday it would not hold election security briefings with members...
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