hackers struck the state s voter rolls starting in june of 2016, in the heat of the presidential election. at one point, they hit the system five times per second. in some cases, voter names, addresses, the last four digits of social security numbers, and other personal voting information were accessed. up to 76,000 voter registrations were breached with the greatest concentration, 14,121, in the city of galesburg. that s almost half the city s population. galesburg s mayor takes it in stride. the russian woulds be making a serious mistake if they came here. [ laughter ] with hostile intentions. reporter: the hearings apparently sympto stumbled on te city s computer number randomly. while they say there is no evidence any vote was changed, the fact that the rush surveillance could gain access is alarming. we probably don t take kindly to outside interference into our
about that. is a national debate over election security focuses on ways to protect the integrity of our election system, state officials know firsthand what is like to be targeted by moscow. he says hackers attacked the voter rolls into the 16 in heat of the presidential election. at one point hitting the system five times per second. in some cases, voter names, addresses and last four digits of social security numbers and other personal information were accessed. they say up to 76,000 voter registrations were breached. with the greatest concentration, 14,121 and the city of galesburg. that, almost half the cities population. the mayor takes it in stride. they could be making a serious mistake if they came here. with hostile intentions. the hackers apparently stumbled on essays nine digit voter computer number randomly. when he says there is no evidence any vote was changed,
government. i think anybody in the country should be concerned about that. reporter: he says hackers struck the vulnerable starting in june 2016. in the heat of the presidential election. at one point, hitting the system five times per second. in some cases, voter names, addresses, the last four digits of social security numbers and other personal voting information for access. up to 76,000 voter registrations were breached with the greatest concentration, 14,121 and the city of galesburg. that, almost half the city s population. galesburg mayor - - takes it in stride. the russians would be making a serious mistake if they came here. with hostile intentions. reporter: the hackers stumbled on the city s nine voter computer number randomly. the feds traced it back to seven ip addresses in the
tampering. saying that a county clerk filled in some voter names. eighteen people are registered from this vacant lot. the trailer park was taken away three years ago. the ohio voter integrity project is challenging than. the worst-case scenario is that someone could actually take this information and utilize it fraudulently. that is unfortunate. election officials say they are watching out for any particular signs of fraud. if they see that kind of activity taking place, there will be a location coordinator there and they can invite that person who is responsible for making sure that doesn t happen. obviously, they see anything else, they can call our board and law enforcement. the obama justice department has election observers and out in 23 states. of course, if you see problems
days, but this is all simply a precautionary measure, they say. an arrest in a gruesome international murder mystery. german police have captured luca rocco magnotta, a self-described porn star accused of killing and dismembering a student in canada. body parts were mailed to canadian police and to politicians. canadian authorities confirmed the arrest a short time ago. george zimmerman s lawyer says he will file for a new bond hearing. the man accused of murdering trayvon martin had his bail revoked by the judge in the case and was sent back to jail over the weekend. the judge said zimmerman lied about his finances in order to get a lower bond. so right now let s bring in christiane amanpour, host of cnn s international. she has scored a rare interview. that visit by maria castro outraged people. was she trying to make inroads and does she speak at all for her father s regime? reporter: well, two interesting questions. i don t think she was trying to make inroads exc