Who Got Hacked This Week? August 4 Edition

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Voting Machines Demonstrably Hacked in 90 Minutes at Def Con

Def Con hosted a “Voting Machine Village” event, where tech-savvy attendees tried to hack some systems and help catch vulnerabilities, at this years conference.

Voting Machine Village provided 30 different pieces of voting equipment used in American elections in a room, which included Sequoia AVC Edge, ES&S iVotronic, AccuVote TSX, WinVote, and Diebold Expresspoll 4000 voting machines.

Several hackers reportedly managed to hack into multiple United States voting machines in a relatively short period—in some cases within minutes, and in other within a few hours—at Def Con cybersecurity conference held in Las Vegas this week.

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