HBO video makes claims about hacked Alaska election computer system in 2016
Must Read Alaska
March 14, 2020
by SUZANNE DOWNING
The phones in the Alaska Division of Elections may be ringing off the hook later this month — as soon as the public sees an upcoming HBO film that says Alaska’s election technology is penetrable by hackers.
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections promises to give viewers a deep dive into the vulnerabilities of today’s election technologies and posits that the cyber attacks it describes are part of a coordinated effort to reduce Americans’ confidence in their elections.
In the film, an India-based computer hacker who says he broke into Alaska’s election system claims he was able to compromise Alaska’s voting systems on the day of the 2016 Presidential Elections and could have changed any vote or deleted any candidate.