Republicans Balk at Democrats' Pledge to Snub Hackers

Just over a year ago, hackers targeted Dr. Hans Keirstead, a Democrat running against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “favorite congressman,” Republican Dana Rohrabacher, with spear-phishing emails and over 100,000 “brute-force attempts” to access the server that hosted Keirstead’s campaign’s website. Microsoft has since detected and blocked hacking attempts against three different congressional candidates, including Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, who was targeted this year by the same Russian intelligence agency that hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016.

The midterm elections, less than 60 days away, are as vulnerable to hackers who steal information and then dump it onto the web to influence voters as the presidential election