By Steve Neavling
Motor City Muckraker
A brazen Russian campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election included coordinated cyber attacks targeting the election system in 21 states and successfully penetrated, some of which were successfully penetrated
Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, told NBC News that Russian hackers gained access to voter registration rolls in several U.S. states ahead of the election.
Manfra declined to identify the targeted states and said she’s forbidden from providing more details because a lot of the information is classified.
”We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated.”
Jeh Johnson, who served as DHS secretary during the Trump campaign, said “2016 was a wake-up call and now it’s incumbent upon states and the Feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again.”
But Johnson said, many of the states have failed to take up no serious measures “to actually harden their cybersecurity.
