Booker campaign says overseas hackers accessed a staffer's Signal account days before Election Day
The campaign says the FBI is involved and the threats have been neutralized ahead of the November 3rd election.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: www.lex18.com
Why it matters
One compromised Signal account can expose leadership messages and contacts without defeating encryption, and the Booker disclosure arrived the same week an attack forced the FEC filing system offline for 41 hours.
Democrat Charles Booker's U.S. Senate campaign said overseas hackers attempted to break into communications used by Booker and senior campaign staff, targeted the campaign website, and gained access to at least one staff member's Signal account sometime in the past couple of months. The campaign disclosed the incident in a statement released Friday, October 30th, four days before the November 3rd election.…
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