Iranian hackers accessed a US municipal website for reporting unofficial election results in 2020 but were kicked off the network by US military hackers and didn’t have any impact on voting, a top US general said Monday
. There was never a risk that vote counts could have been altered because such election night websites report preliminary data rather than certified ballot results. Instead, US officials were concerned that the hackers might use their access to the website to mislead the public by posting fake results. “Our concern is always that some type of web defacement … on the night of the election could make it look like the vote had been tampered with when that’s absolutely not true,” Maj. Gen.
The US military then executed its own cyber operation to kick the Iranians off of the network of the US city to ensure the Iranian hackers were “unable to come back into the network” in the runup to the 2020 election, Hartman said. He did not name the US city network that was affected. The episode illustrates how cyberspace has become a key frontier in various governments’ efforts to shape, influence and defend elections.
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