Georgia officials thwarted an attempt to flood the state’s absentee voter portal in an apparent attempt to crash the site, the secretary of state’s office said on Wednesday evening.
The attack was limited to the part of the state’s website that voters use to request an absentee ballot. Users may have experienced a brief slowdown, but the site never crashed and no data was compromised, said Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer in the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
He said it was not clear where the attack originated. There has been no public indication that similar systems in any other state were subject to the same kind of attack, and federal government agencies have not offered public comments on the alleged incident….