Hackers have penetrated two state election databases in the past several weeks, according to an alert by the FBI’s Cyber Division.
The alert, which was first obtained by Yahoo News, showed that the Board of Elections websites in two states were attacked from a series of IP-addresses.
Citing sources familiar with the report, Yahoo reported that the two states in question are Arizona and Illinois. In Illinois the attack forced officials to close down the voter registration system for 10 days in July after hackers downloaded personal information on as many as 200,000 voters.
