Hacking into state and local election databases was far more extensive than government officials had previously reported last year, government officials said in a report published Thursday.
Hackers, though not necessarily Russian, altered voter information on at least one occasion in a county database, though it’s not clear how many voters’ forms were affected by that incident. Local officials caught the manipulations and fixed the changes.
The culprit also obtained thousands of voter records that list drivers license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers, according to TIME.
In the case of Illinois, where 90,000 records were stolen by Russian state actors, nearly 90 percent of those documents contained driver’s license numbers, while 25 percent contained partial Social Security numbers.
The finding comes a day after former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the House Intelligence Committee Russia’s interference in the election did not result in the changing of any votes.
“I know of no evidence that through cyber intrusion, votes were altered or suppressed in some way,” Johnson testified Wednesday.
The congressional committees probing Russia’s actions will determine if any of the stolen information was given to President Trump’s campaign.
