Chinese hackers are likely salivating at Hillary Clinton’s new “automatic voting registration for everyone“ idea.
Shortly after her proposal to automatically make voters part of a federal voting database at the age of 18 and a plan to expand early voting, the White House announced a massive data breach involving the Office of Personnel Management and Interior Department that “could potentially affect every federal agency,” according to the Associated Press.
A foreign entity or government is believed to be behind the cyber attack. U.S. officials are investigating whether Chinese hackers were involved, Reuters reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.
A congressional aide familiar with the situation, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to discuss it, says the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department were hacked. A second U.S. official who also declined to be identified said the data breach could potentially affect every federal agency.
The federal government is notifying an estimated four million employees that their personal data has been compromised.
“The FBI is working with our interagency partners to investigate this matter. We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously, and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace,” an FBI spokesman told CNBC.
Poor Hillary. Now the American people won’t be able to trust the US government with a program that messes with their voting rights. Oh, wait . . .
And Hillary JUST proposed automatically registering every person of voting age. OOPS. https://t.co/nnGpLS7BHI
— RB (@RBPundit) June 4, 2015
Quick, let’s give the feds more information and authority! https://t.co/NX10XblhnQ
— Dan Isett (@DanIsett) June 4, 2015
Dept of Bad Timing: Maybe National Federal Registration database Hillary wants is not such a good idea after all. https://t.co/h5UxycEwKO
— Seymour Sludgeworth (@SSludgeworth) June 4, 2015
@RBPundit @KenDilanianAP I don’t trust the Queen of the unregistered server with my vote, my money, or my security.
— Lisa B. (@politeracy) June 4, 2015
@RBPundit i assume China has every email ever written while Hills was SoS. We should ask them for them. @KenDilanianAP
— MN Conservative (@LIBSRSCUM) June 4, 2015
@DougAdamavich I assume my son’s 9th grade comp sci class has them too. They will show up during the election. @RBPundit @KenDilanianAP
— MN Conservative (@LIBSRSCUM) June 4, 2015
One tweeter thinks the hackers may have learned from the best:
@politeracy She’s the most accomplished thief in the world. @RBPundit @KenDilanianAP
— Sheryl (@sav01) June 4, 2015
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