The alleged incident, which has not been previously reported, is distinct from other Iranian election interference attempts that U.S. officials announced in the days before that election.
Kaytie Boomer / The Bay City Times via AP fileHackers working for Iran broke into a U.S. city’s website ahead of the 2020 election with the possible intention of altering the unofficial vote counts shown on election day, a senior military cyber official said Monday.other allegations of Iranian
Hartman declined to share specifics about the incident. “All I’m going to tell you is that we were able to go out and remediate the access that they had in these networks,” he said. U.S. Cyber Command specializes in addressing foreign cyber threats and rarely speaks openly about their operations. Cyber Command worked to get the news of the attack on the U.S. city’s networks declassified specifically to present that information at the conference, a spokesperson said.
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