Although there is no evidence suggesting that the Iowa caucuses were hacked, the app used to report results was vulnerable to hacks that could have altered vote totals and changed passwords.
There is no evidence to suggest the app was hacked during Monday's caucus, but the chaos resulting from a breakdown in reporting results was blamed on"coding issues" and"inconsistencies" in the app. The software wasdeveloped on a rushed timeline of two months with a limited budget. However, the app could have caused far bigger problems than delays in reporting caucus results, according to the report.
The software, called the IowaReporterApp, could have been hacked because it did not properly safeguard against intercepted transmissions to and from the smartphones it was designed to be used on, security firm Veracode told ProPublica. The vulnerability would have been even easier to exploit had the app been used on phones connected to an open Wi-Fi hotspot.
"We will apply the lessons learned in the future, and have already corrected the underlying technology issue," the company tweeted Tuesday."We take these issues very seriously, and are committed to improving and evolving to support the Democratic Party's goal of modernizing its election processes."
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