9-27-17 wisconsin elections security

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission says Russian hackers may have been trying to access the state voter registration database but scanned one belonging to another state agency by mistake.  Commission spokesman Reid Magney said Tuesday that “it’s been a difficult process trying to piece all of this together.”  Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator Michael Haas says one theory is that Homeland Security saw suspicious activity from IP addresses targeting state election systems in other states and assumed that was the intent in Wisconsin as well.  Homeland Security told Wisconsin on Friday its voter registration database was scanned by hackers but not infiltrated. But on Tuesday, Homeland Security said the election system wasn’t the target but rather the Department of Workforce Development.  The state is working on bolstering its cyber security plans.