Hacking Attempts Disrupt Federal Election Commission Filing System One Week Before Midterms

Source: International Business Times

The FEC confirmed that its electronic filing system was offline but declined to comment further on the cause of the outage. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system went offline after hacking attempts targeted the agency's website on Wednesday, interrupting the disclosure of political spending just one week before the November 3 midterm elections. An email reviewed by Reuters indicated that the attempted intrusion prompted the agency to temporarily shut down web-facing services.