The Federal Election Commission shut down its electronic filing system and other web-facing services after hacking attempts, per an FEC email reported by Reuters. The FEC says work continues to restore e-filing; other data searches and report PDFs remain available.
What to do: Oct 29: FEC says e-filing is back online; FECNotify, HTML report view and e-filing search still being restored. NHK: no expected midterm impact.
Update: Work continues to resolve the electronic filing system outage. other campaign finance data searches remain available as do PDFs of reports.
BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result -Reuters
🚨🇺🇸 Hackers target Federal Election Commission, forcing filing system offline The U.S. Federal Election Commission temporarily shut down its electronic filing system after hacking attempts disrupted the service one week before the November 3 midterm elections
FEC’s electronic filing system is back online and available to filers. While work continues to restore the FECNotify service, HTML presentation of reports and the electronic fling search system, all campaign finance filings continue to be available on
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