'We understand the FBI believes that this operation enabled the GRU to gain access to the network of at least one Florida county government,' the special counsel's report says.
The FBI accused Russia of hacking into a Florida county government network, just ahead of the 2016 presidential election, through the use of an elaborate spear-phishing scheme, according to the newly released report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
GRU Unit 74455 allegedly"sent spearphishing emails to public officials involved in election administration and personnel involved in voting technology" by targeting software vendors that deal with voter databases. "We understand the FBI believes that this operation enabled the GRU to gain access to the network of at least one Florida county government," the report said. "The Office did not independently verify that belief and, as explained above, did not undertake the investigative steps that would have been necessary to do so."
Months earlier, in August 2018, then-Florida Senator Bill Nelson, who served on the Senate Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, told the Tampa Bay Times that Russian hackers have"already penetrated certain counties in the state, and they now have free rein to move about." The claim was controversial among authorities, and the Florida Department of State told Newsweek at the time that it received"zero information from Senator Nelson or his staff that support his claims.
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