These databases cover 21 states in all, with records for 81,534,624 voters that include voter IDs, names and addresses, phone numbers and citizenship status. Tom Kellerman, Carbon Black's chief cybersecurity officer, describes the nation-state attackers as not "just committing simple burglary or even home invasion, they're arsonists." The two also lead the pack when it comes to which countries incident response teams are seeing cyberattacks originating from. That research revealed that 81% of them thought threat actors will target election data as it is transmitted by voting machines. Other cybersecurity experts suggest that the focus, when it comes to mitigating risk of interference in the midterm elections, simply needs to extend beyond voter registration and voting machine security altogether.

Source: Forbes October 30, 2018 13:01 UTC