Trump officials asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine — and not disclose any vulnerabilities they found
- Trump administration officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine just months into his second term
- CISA was told not to disclose any vulnerabilities to the voting machine manufacturer
- CISA has been gutted by job cuts and a lack of funding, with many state officials hesitant to trust the agency with securing the midterm elections
Towards the start of President Trump’s second term, allies in the Department of Homeland Security tasked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with secretly acquiring a voting machine with instructions to hack it and not tell anyone except the White House about the vulnerabilities they found.
ProPublica, who spoke to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request, noted that the standard practices of CISA require the agency to let manufacturers know of vulnerabilities in their technology, but the political appointees explicitly asked CISA not to.
“My thought was they could keep...
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