There’s a follow-up to a headline-grabbing story earlier this month in which the State of Georgia accused the Department of Homeland Security of hacking its election database. Joe Uchill reports:
DHS officials told reporters on a conference call Friday that the attempted entry came from an employee at the state’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center who was accessing Georgia’s database of licensed security personnel. The training center regularly accesses that database to verify that potential employees are licensed.
Based on the data provided by Kemp, the DHS was able to identify why the alarm was triggered, it said
There was more to the explanation, of course, but Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is reportedly not satisfied by the explanation DHS provided and wants further investigation, it seems.
Read more on The Hill. If copying/pasting triggered the alert, then I’d be asking, “How many times has copying/pasting occurred this way in the past year? Has it ever triggered an alert before, or did the state recently upgrade its monitoring or anything?”