Security News > 2020 > January > Expert: Georgia Election Server Showed Signs of Tampering
A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked.
Logan Lamb, a security expert for the plaintiffs, said in an affidavit filed in Atlanta federal court on Thursday that he found evidence suggesting the server was compromised in December 2014.
Lamb found evidence that election-related files were deleted from the server on March 2, 2017, just after a colleague of his alerted KSU officials that the election server remained vulnerable to hackers.
The plaintiffs have accused state election officials of repeatedly and intentionally destroying evidence that could show unauthorized access to state election infrastructure and the potential manipulation of election results.
Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, said he found evidence in examining the server image that software running on the voting machines being phased out in Georgia were vulnerable to known attacks.