alert from its cyberdivision, again, warning state election officials, warning secretaries of state that they needed to take steps now to beef up their firewalls, beef up their other security measures because it wasn t some vague sense of russian hostile intentions toward our elections. no, by that point the fbi cyberdivision had observed russian state hackers specifically targeting multiple u.s. states and succeeding in breaching security and getting into election systems so conceivably they could mess with the vote or mess with voter registrations in at least two states. so the fbi sent out that flash alert august 18th, 2016, sent it from the fbi cyberdivision that was supposed to be a secret alert to all the states. of course, it immediately leaked to the press. but at least at this point, you know, the call from the homeland security secretary, with the public reporting that it was russian state actors who hacked the democratic party with this flash secret alert from fbi cyber, hey
appeared to be their designs specifically on our election infrastructure in the states. now that call, jeh johnson will later explain, didn t go all that well, but then three days later, august 18th, 2016, the fbi sent out a secret flash alert from its cyberdivision, again, warning state election officials, warning secretaries of state that they needed to take steps now to beef up their firewalls, beef up their other security measures because it wasn t some vague sense of hostile intentions towards our elections. no, by that point the fbi cyberdivision had observed russian state hackers specifically targeting multiple u.s. states and succeeding in breeching security and getting into election systems so conceivably they could mess with the vote or mess with voter registrations in at least two states. so the fbi sent out that flash alert august 18th, 2016, sent it from the fbi cyberdivision that was supposed to be a secret alert to all the states.
specifically on our election infrastructure in the states. now that call, jeh johnson will later explain, didn t go all that well, but then three days later, august 18th, 2016, the fbi sent out a secret flash alert from its cyberdivision, again, warning state election officials, warning secretaries of state that they needed to take steps now to beef up their firewalls, beef up their other security measures because it wasn t some vague sense of hostile intentions towards our elections. no, by that point the fbi cyberdivision had observed russian state hackers specifically targeting multiple u.s. states and succeeding in breaching security and getting into election systems so conceivably they could mess with the vote or mess with voter