The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified election officials in 21 states that their systems were hacked prior to the 2016 presidential election, theAssociated Pressreported adidas rapidarun junior DHS had previously disclosed its findings that multiple states were subjected to hacking — likely by Russia — but waited approximately one year before telling the individual states; a decision which has come under fire. “It is completely unacceptable that it has taken DHS over a year to inform our office of Russian scanning of our systems, despite repeated requests for information,” California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement, as reported by the AP. Though the DHS didn’t publicly announce the list of states that were hacked, the AP contacted every state and received confirmations from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. DHS also didn’t say who was responsible for the hacking, but the Wisconsin Election Commission said its systems were hacked by “Russian government cyber actors.” Though officials noted that most states’ systems were not actually breached (rather, hackers only got as far as “preparatory activity,” per the AP), at least one state’s was: Illinois. adidas rapidarun junior Rosenstein pointed out during his DOJ announcement of the indictment, "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity." However, claims that three unnamed Trump campaign officials were communicating with the Russian defendants are included in the indictment.Calling the group a "Russian troll farm,"The Washington Post adidas rapidarun junior Sessions hired attorney Charles Cooper, but did not confirm when he was hired or if he would represent Sessions in the Russia probe. adidas rapidarun junior
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