U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said Friday what Georgia’s Secretary of State has called “failed cyberattacks” by the department were not nefarious.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp sent a letter last week to DHS seeking an answer about an incident his office detected that occurred a week after the election. Kemp said the agency’s firewall detected a “large unblocked scan event,” and the “attempt to breach” their system was unsuccessful.
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