Perpetrator as yet unknown but private information lost in the recent Illinois vote hacking case

CHICAGO — Illinois State Board of Elections officials said Monday they believe personal information from fewer than 200,000 voters was hacked through a cyberattack of possible foreign origin that began in June and was halted a month later. Ken Menzel, general counsel for the elections board, said no files of registered voters were erased or modified…

The FBI has sent out an alert to Arizona and Illinois that their voter registration databases were hacked and the personal data of at least 200,000 registered voters was accessed. Mother Jones reports: The FBI believes hackers tried to get data from the State Board of Elections in at least two states in July and August,…