Mississippi officials confirmed that it was hit with a cyber-attack on state election websites on Tuesday.
“Yesterday, our offices confirmed an abnormally large increase in traffic volume due to DDoS activity, which caused the public-facing side of our websites to be periodically inaccessible,” Secretary of State Michael Watson said in a press release on Wednesday. “At this time, we do not have confirmation as to where the DDoS activity originated, and more evidence would be required to attribute to any person or group.”
Watson added that his office can “confidently say our election system was not compromised.”
According to Cloudflare, DDoS, an acronym for distributed denial-of-services, is a cyber-attack in which hackers attempt to disrupt the traffic of a server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic….