Florida officials struggled to manage their cybersecurity and failed to heed multiple warnings as Russian hackers attacked electoral systems throughout the state and successfully breached two counties in 2016, according to a bipartisan Senate report
The Senate Intelligence Committee's redacted chapter on election security, released Thursday, concluded that the Russian government"directed extensive activity against US election infrastructure" from 2014 through 2017 and that the Russian efforts"exploited the seams" between the federal authorities and states. The report also found that all 50 states were likely targeted.
There's no evidence of votes being changed, officials who have received that briefing have said, but the Russians did have access to sensitive systems.
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