{"id":747,"date":"2017-07-12T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/07\/12\/the-steps-maryland-took-after-hacker-went-for-its-voter-information-procurement-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:33:00","slug":"the-steps-maryland-took-after-hacker-went-for-its-voter-information-procurement-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/the-steps-maryland-took-after-hacker-went-for-its-voter-information-procurement-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steps Maryland took after hacker went for its voter information. Procurement Opportunity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2016, Maryland officials notices hackers were trying to get to voter information, that set off a flurry of legislator and regulator activity. Here&#8217;s where they ended\u00a0up almost a year later:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>legislators didn&#8217;t find out until it was in the news which ruffled feathers. suprise!<\/li>\n<li>Within 3 days of noticing the hacking attempt,\u00a0\u00a0state\u2019s computer staff blocked the IP address from multiple parts of the network<\/li>\n<li>The Maryland elections administrator notified the Governor&#8217;s cabinet<\/li>\n<li>2 weeks later, Maryland officials alerted the FBI<\/li>\n<li>The FBI then notified Department of Homeland Security<\/li>\n<li>In September, Maryland\u2019s elections administrator learned DHS had tools to help states at a conference, which she requested and began 1 month later<\/li>\n<li>DHS conducts\u00a0remote weekly \u201ccyber hygiene scans&#8221; of Maryland&#8217;s systems<\/li>\n<li>Maryland hired outside contractors to protect and monitor their election systems<\/li>\n<li>Maryland&#8217;s\u00a0voter-registration database is not connected to the internet<\/li>\n<li>Maryland&#8217;s legislators are still gearing up to act<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/article_email\/how-maryland-contended-with-attempted-hack-of-its-voter-registration-system-1499765402-lMyQjAxMTI3MDE2MTgxODExWj\/\">Wall Street Journal |\u00a0How Maryland Contended With Attempted Hack Of Its Voter-Registration System<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2016, Maryland officials notices hackers were trying to get to voter information, that set off a flurry of legislator and regulator activity. Here&#8217;s where they ended\u00a0up almost a year later:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>legislators didn&#8217;t find out until it was in the news which ruffled feathers. suprise!<\/li>\n<li>Within 3 days of noticing the hacking attempt,\u00a0\u00a0state\u2019s computer staff blocked the IP address from multiple parts of the network<\/li>\n<li>The Maryland elections administrator notified the Governor&#8217;s cabinet<\/li>\n<li>2 weeks\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,36,3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issue","category-campaign-trend","category-election-data-breach","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}