Tennessee Election Tracking Site Downtime Due To Cyberattack

On May 1st, a website in Tennessee tracking county election results suffered a cyberattack and subsequent incursions before it went down, a security firm concluded. According to its report, "a suspiciously large number of foreign countries" accessed the site, which likely overwhelmed it until it stopped functioning. No data was accessed, the report emphasized -- the attackers would have needed physical access to manipulate the voting data -- but the website was down for an hour after polls closed.

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