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Hacking attempts against US Federal Election Commission system triggered outage, email shows

·Source: DataBreaches.net

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Executive Summary

Dawn Kopecki reports: The US Federal Election Commission’s website has been targeted by a hacker or hackers, disrupting the agency’s electronic filings system a week before the November 3 elections, according to an email seen by Reuters. In a statement, the FEC said that, “at this time, the FEC’s electronic filing system is currently offline...

Analysis

Dawn Kopecki reports: The US Federal Election Commission’s website has been targeted by a hacker or hackers, disrupting the agency’s electronic filings system a week before the November 3 elections, according to an email seen by Reuters. In a statement, the FEC said that, “at this time, the FEC’s electronic filing system is currently offline...
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Originally published by DataBreaches.net on Oct 27, 2026.

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