Former President Barack Obama attempted to intervene last October, according to Bloomberg, using the so-called "red phone" secure messaging channel established between Russian Federation and the U.S.to deescalate the threat of cyberattacks.
RUSSIAN HACKERS may have interfered with voting mechanisms in no less than 39 states during the USA election, a new report claims.
Since the election, investigations have revealed the invasion of both voter databases and software systems in about two times as many states as was previously reported, the publication said.
In Illinois, investigators also found evidence that the hackers tried but failed to alter or delete some information in the database, an attempt that wasn't previously reported.
The interference in the election process led the Obama White House to use the "red phone", a direct line between Washington and the Kremlin, to warn that Russia's action could instigate a broader conflict, Bloomberg reported.
It builds on a NSA document leaked to The Intercept and made public last week that offered hard evidence that Russian meddling involved not only the strategic hacking and distribution of campaign communications, but efforts to interfere with America's election infrastructure.
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What could be seen by outsiders as "deep vulnerabilities" in the U.S.'s voting technologies comes less than a week after former FBI Director James Comey warned Congress that the trouble with Russian Federation isn't over.
Another former senior US official, who asked for anonymity to discuss the classified USA probe into pre-election hacking, said a more likely explanation is that several months of hacking failed to give the attackers the access they needed to master America's disparate voting systems spread across more than 7,000 local jurisdictions. "They will be back".
The Russian meddling of the USA election past year went way deeper than stealing Hillary Clinton's emails and spreading lots of fake news to confuse your grandmother on Facebook.
When the federal government sent alerts about the IL intrusion to other states, 39 total found evidence of hacking attempts.
In many states, the extent of the Russian infiltration remains unclear.
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