Russian hackers didn't penetrate Omaha-based Elections Systems & Software, executive says FBI told h
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Steve Jordon
Russian hackers did not penetrate the election machines or computer software of Omaha-based Election Systems & Software during the 2016 election season, a company executive told The World-Herald on Tuesday.
"When information started to come out about the possibility for bad nation-state actors ... the FBI did reach out to us," said Kathy Rogers, senior vice president for government affairs with Election Systems, also known as ES&S, which supplies voting systems for many U.S. elections.
"We worked with the FBI to double-check and verify that no such bad actors had penetrated our systems," Rogers said.
Last week, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that a grand jury indicted 12 Russian government intelligence officers with hacking into U.S. election-related computer systems in 2016. Among the allegations are that they hacked into the computers of a company that supplied software to verify voter registration information. Rosenstein didn't identify the company that is said to have been hacked.
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