During the presidential campaign in the United States in 2016 hacker attacks from Russia was subjected to 21 staff. On Saturday, September 23, with reference to sources in the Department of homeland security (DHS), the United States reports Reuters.
DHS did not call the victims of attacks in the States, but we know that among them are Wisconsin, said the administrator of the Electoral Commission of Wisconsin Michael Haas.
Reuters indicates that the supposedly relevant to Russia hackers managed “to scan connected to the Internet and electoral electoral framework of Wisconsin with the purpose will likely discover a particular vulnerability, such as access to the registration databases of voters.” It is noted that attempts have not been successful.
The Associated Press indicates that hacker attacks have also been Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Break into the computer infrastructure, hackers managed only in Illinois.
In January was published the declassified version of the report of US intelligence, which claimed that hackers attacked American computer systems during the election campaign, are the Russian authorities are using the attack allegedly wanted to influence the political process in the country. In response, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow is seriously tired of the accusations and believes the ongoing “witch hunt”.