http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/4292347.html Ted Bridis Associated Press December 30, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A company developing security technology for electronic voting suffered an embarrassing hacker break-in that its executives think was tied to the debate over the safety of casting ballots online. VoteHere Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., confirmed Monday that U.S. officials are investigating a break-in of its computers in October, when someone roamed its internal computer network. The intruder accessed internal documents and might have copied sensitive software blueprints that the company eventually planned to disclose publicly. CEO Jim Adler said VoteHere was confident that it knew who its hacker was and had turned over "megabytes of evidence" to the FBI and Secret Service. It sealed the intruder's access from the Internet, he said. U.S. authorities confirmed the investigation but declined to comment further. Adler would not identify the company's chief suspect but said he thinks the person was linked to the debate over the security of electronic voting. The same individual might be tied to the theft in March of internal documents from Diebold Election Systems of Canton, Ohio. "We caught the intruder, identified him by name. We know where he lives," Adler said. "We think this is political. There have been break-ins around election companies over the last several months, and we think this is related." VoteHere, which is privately held, disclosed the federal investigation to stress that the break-in did not affect the integrity of its voting technology, Adler said. The company also wanted to pre-empt any criticisms of electronic voting based on public disclosures of its internal records. - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo@private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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