Oct. 21 cyberattack: rehearsal for US Election?
Oct. 21 cyberattack: rehearsal for US Election? Sunday October 23 rd , 2016 at 8:23 PM DEBKAFile 1 Share Oct. 21 cyberattack: rehearsal for US Election? A cyberattack on Oct. 21 used millions of internet-connected devices to flood the infrastructure of one of the biggest internet routing companies in the US with malicious traffic until it crashed. The attack started on the East Coast but soon spread westward in three waves during the day. Cyber experts suspect that this unprecedented assault, on a massive scale that points to a state hacker - whether Russia, China or North Korea – may have been staged as a rehearsal for the main show, the disruption of America’s Nov. 8 elections. There is increasing concern that voters in the 31 states, where civilians and American troops overseas may cast their ballots by Internet, will find their websites disabled by hackers. Around one million US voters would be affected, a critical figure in a tight pr