FEC takes down electronic filing systems after attempted hack

The Federal Election Commission has taken several campaign finance filing and search systems offline after reports that the agency was targeted in a cyberattack. The incident comes days before the U.S. midterms, but the FEC does not administer elections, so voting is unaffected. No timeline for full restoration was given.

• Filing search, report validation tools and other FEC feeds are offline
• FEC does not run elections, so balloting is not affected
• Outage blocks required 24-hour and 48-hour disclosure reports
• Commission says the issue is identified and a fix is being deployed