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The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said she couldn't talk about classified information publicly, but in 2016, "We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated."

..."We were able to determine that the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the Russian government."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...op-u-s-n845721

Meanwhile, Rex Tillerson on the subject of Russian meddling (for which he and Trump didn't impose the required sanctions a couple of weeks back):

“The point is, if it's their intention to interfere, they are going to find ways to do that. We can take steps, but this is something that, once they decide they are going to do it, it's very difficult to pre-empt it."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ons/314560002/