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November–December: After the election, a Russian hacker breaks into Election Assistance Commission servers and steals the login credentials for over 100 users. The hack is discovered by chance when Recorded Future , a security firm, comes across the credentials being offered for sale on the dark web to a Middle Eastern government.
Four of the intrusions into voter registration databases were successful, including intrusions into the Illinois and Arizona databases. [169] Although the hackers did not appear to change or manipulate data, [167] [166] Illinois officials said information on up to 200,000 registered voters was stolen. [168]