With the election coming up shortly, many hackers have been trying to exploit election databases to get PII about voters. Both Illinois and Arizona had to perform extensive security reviews regarding their vulnerabilities in their systems. An SQL injection attack was discovered to be hitting the voter registration database for 24 hours a day from June 23 to August 12, showing that an attack can go under the radar for so long. Department of Homeland Security Secretary have been pressed about the issue and are still investigating how to prevent this from happening in the future.
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