Hackers penetrate Illinois voter registration database

[TexasTowelie]

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Board of Elections’ online voter registration system remained down Thursday afternoon in the wake of a cyberattack last week.

The attack on the statewide Illinois Voter Registration System occurred July 12, and the system was shut off July 13 as a precaution once the board realized the severity of the attack, according to a message sent to local election authorities.

Hackers exploited “a chink in the armor in one small data field in the online registration system,” said Ken Menzel, the board’s general counsel.

“We’re in the process of analyzing the tracks left by the attack,” Menzel said. “We’re still not ready to say exactly what might have been gotten into.”

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[2naSalit]

1. Perhaps

orchestrated to avoid a rush to register. Hacking is a deterrent after all.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Would now be a good time to finally do something about our intentionally easy

to hack/rig electronic voting system? No one ever seem to do anything about this problem, and it is a problem. You remeber Bush /Rove IT guy who died when his small plane mysteriously and coincidentally crashed just a few days before he was to give his deposition in the case about a hack from a TN., company he had an interest in that swapped votes from Kerry to Bush.