Local TREND. Primary Election Hacked in the Iris State

Local May 2018 election that was hacked:  Knox County, Tennessee primary for mayor &  local races

What kind of hack was used?  A DDoS attack routed through 65 countries

Translation of the hack? A lot of computers from all over the world tried to access the web server for the election from 7pm to 10pm causing the election site to crash

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