The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice found “no evidence” that any foreign government “materially affected the security or integrity” of election infrastructure in the 2022 midterms, according to a declassified report released Monday night.
“We did detect some cyber activity that did not compromise election infrastructure networks, including from pro-Russian hacktivists and suspected People’s Republic of China (PRC) actors,” the report says.
In one instance, according to the report, pro-Russian “hacktivists” claimed they carried out a denial of service attack. The “hacktivists” said this resulted in temporarily restricted access to a state election website, the report said.
Among the key findings in the report was that the People’s Republic of China’s “cyber actors scanned both election-related and non-election state government websites.” Additionally, some of the alleged actors accumulated U.S. voter information that was publicly available U.S. voter…
