{"id":27054,"date":"2019-04-29T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30088\/Marco-Rubio-Confirms-Russian-Hackers-Could-Have-Altered-Florida-County-Voting-Records.html"},"modified":"2019-04-29T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:03:49","slug":"marco-rubio-confirms-russian-hackers-could-have-altered-florida-county-voting-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/marco-rubio-confirms-russian-hackers-could-have-altered-florida-county-voting-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Confirms Russian Hackers Could Have Altered Florida County Voting Records"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian hackers were able to breach one Florida county\u2019s voting systems during the 2016 Presidential Election, Florida Senator Marco Rubio confirmed in an interview, noting that that hackers not only accessed the county\u2019s systems, but had the ability to change voter roll data, according to The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Times<\/em>\u2019 report details how hackers mimicked e-mails from VR systems, a company that sells electronic voting equipment to states. Some voting officials noticed something was off \u2014 it used British vocabulary and a Gmail account \u2014 but in at least one county, hackers were successful. Senator Rubio confirmed that hackers were able to gain access to a system, and that they were \u201cin a position\u201d to alter records.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s report from Robert Mueller<\/a> on Russian interference in the 2016 election confirmed that hackers had infiltrated the vendor<\/a>, and had breached the computer systems of one Florida county, leading Florida officials to wonder which county \u2014 something the FBI hasn\u2019t revealed, even to state officials. Earlier this week, The Miami Herald<\/em> reported<\/a> that the FBI will meet with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Senator Rick Scott in the coming weeks to brief them.<\/p>\n

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