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The post Hackers failed to hack into DNC voter database, says security firm appeared first on BardTech . The Democratic National Committee has prevented an attempt to hack into its database of tens of millions of voters. CNN and the Associated Press  reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed party official, that the political organization was warned Tuesday of the attempt. DNC officials reportedly contacted the FBI. When contacted, a spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment. Lookout, a security firm, told TechCrunch that its staff detected a phishing page hosted on DigitalOcean, a cloud computing and hosting giant, which replicated a login page for NGP VAN , a technology provider for Democratic campaigns. In the case of phishing attacks, hackers attempt to obtain the username and password for sensitive internal systems by tricking staff into entering their credentials on spoofed sites. Hackers can then reuse those credentials to log in themselves. Jeremy Richards, prin...

The post Hackers failed to hack into DNC voter database, says security firm appeared first on BardTech . The Democratic National Committee has prevented an attempt to hack into its database of tens of millions of voters. CNN and the Associated Press  reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed party official, that the political organization was warned Tuesday of the attempt. DNC officials reportedly contacted the FBI. When contacted, a spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment. Lookout, a security firm, told TechCrunch that its staff detected a phishing page hosted on DigitalOcean, a cloud computing and hosting giant, which replicated a login page for NGP VAN , a technology provider for Democratic campaigns. In the case of phishing attacks, hackers attempt to obtain the username and password for sensitive internal systems by tricking staff into entering their credentials on spoofed sites. Hackers can then reuse those credentials to log in themselves. Jeremy Richards, prin...