FEC Filing Outage After Reported Hacking Attempt
Recorded 2026-10-27 · Tech News
A reported hacking attempt has disrupted the Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system, one week before the November third midterm elections.
Reuters says it reviewed an email from an agency electronic filings officer describing a bad actor trying to breach FEC systems and a temporary shutdown of web-facing services.
The commission confirmed that its filing system was offline.
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