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The firm hired by the county said those actions were among the likely causes of the crash, which also included a large increase in errors and in overall traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/09\/the-7-takeaways-from-the-senate-report-on-russias-election-interference\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_18097009298800.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The 7 takeaways from the Senate report on Russia\u2019s election interference<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Senate Intelligence Committee released the first installment of its report into the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials have said no voting data was affected, but the site was down for an hour after the polls closed \u2014 causing confusion among voters \u2014 before technicians fixed the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report notes that no compromise of official election data could have happened. Physical access would have been the only way to manipulate official data, and access to the results was closely guarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators said there were multiple attempts to attack a vulnerable part of the site, but it\u2019s not clear where the so-called \u201cdenial of service\u201d attack originated from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe effect was clearly a loss of service, but it is unclear, with the information provided, if the outage was an intended event or a side effect of the events,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Ball, the county\u2019s deputy director of information technology, said the vulnerability issue identified by Sword &amp; Shield has been fixed. Additional safeguards also have been put into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report said the website received requests for access from about 100 countries. 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Source addresses from Ukraine and Great Britain tried to exploit a vulnerability in the website, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dan Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice University, notes that the internet is a \u201cmessy place\u201d with a lot of background traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is often quite difficult to understand what is an attack, and what is just random traffic,\u201d Wallach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, if it is a specific attack, then it would be difficult to find its origin because attackers are very good at hiding their location, Wallach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat attackers will do is they\u2019ll break into other computers and then launch their attacks from there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal authorities, who said last week they weren\u2019t involved in the investigation, didn\u2019t immediately 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