‘Bad actor’ cyberattack on FEC obscures political spending by donors and SuperPACs days before US midterm elections
THE SO WHAT
A cyberattack that blinds the FEC to donor and SuperPAC flows days before midterms shows election integrity now hinges on the resilience of a few federal systems. Any organization touching political data or civic infrastructure should revisit incident response and redundancy—availability attacks are now as consequential as data theft.
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