Federal Government: Connecticut a Target of Election Hacking

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials were notified by the federal government on Friday that the state’s online voter registration system was targeted during last year’s presidential campaign in hacking efforts by Russia.
Gabe Rosenberg, a spokesman from the Secretary of the State’s office, said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security informed the office that the online system was scanned by agents of the Russian government between July and September of 2016, but