Anons 'member four years ago when "Russians" tried hacking into Georgia's voting registry? Yeah, well, me neither. DHS, however, did…
>The secretary of state of Georgia is asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain what appears to be an attempted breach of the state’s computer systems that house its voter registration database by someone in the federal government.
'Member who the Secretary of State was in 2016? The current governor Brian Kemp.
>In a letter to Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson dated Thursday, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp said the state had discovered an unsuccessful attempt to breach the firewall of state computer systems. The attempt occurred on November 15 and was linked to an IP address associated with DHS, he said.
>A spokesman for Mr. Kemp confirmed the contents of the letter, which was earlier reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
>“At no time has my office agreed to or permitted DHS to conduct penetration testing or security scans of our network,” wrote Mr. Kemp, a Republican. “Moreover, your department has not contacted my office since this unsuccessful incident to alert us of any security event that would require testing or scanning of our network.”
Good times in Georgia, good times.
Georgia Says Someone in U.S. Government Tried to Hack State’s Computers Housing Voter Data
By Byron Tau
Dec. 8, 2016
https://www.wsj.com/articles/georgia-reports-attempt-to-hack-states-election-database-via-ip-address-linked-to-homeland-security-1481229960
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