http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/4292347.html
Ted Bridis
Associated Press
December 30, 2003
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A company developing security technology for
electronic voting suffered an embarrassing hacker break-in that its
executives think was tied to the debate over the safety of casting
ballots online.
VoteHere Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., confirmed Monday that U.S. officials
are investigating a break-in of its computers in October, when someone
roamed its internal computer network. The intruder accessed internal
documents and might have copied sensitive software blueprints that the
company eventually planned to disclose publicly.
CEO Jim Adler said VoteHere was confident that it knew who its hacker
was and had turned over "megabytes of evidence" to the FBI and Secret
Service. It sealed the intruder's access from the Internet, he said.
U.S. authorities confirmed the investigation but declined to comment
further.
Adler would not identify the company's chief suspect but said he
thinks the person was linked to the debate over the security of
electronic voting. The same individual might be tied to the theft in
March of internal documents from Diebold Election Systems of Canton,
Ohio.
"We caught the intruder, identified him by name. We know where he
lives," Adler said. "We think this is political. There have been
break-ins around election companies over the last several months, and
we think this is related."
VoteHere, which is privately held, disclosed the federal investigation
to stress that the break-in did not affect the integrity of its voting
technology, Adler said. The company also wanted to pre-empt any
criticisms of electronic voting based on public disclosures of its
internal records.
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