Cyberattack Targets US FEC Filing System Days Ahead of Midterms

Hackers disrupted the US Federal Election Commission's filing system, halting campaign finance disclosures days before the midterm elections.

A cyberattack has targeted the filing system of the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), disrupting campaign finance disclosures just days before the congressional midterm elections, news agency Reuters reported.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported that the filing system went down a week before the vote, and that the federal agency has declined to explain the cause of the outage.

Further details regarding the source of the cyberattack, the perpetrators, and the expected timeline for fully restoring the system have not yet been released.