Security News > 2020 > February > Report: Iowa Caucus App Vulnerable to Hacking

A review by two computer security experts of the mobile app that malfunctioned during Iowa's critical tally of the Democratic Party's caucus has uncovered that it insecurely sends data, ProPublica reports.

Veracode found that the app was vulnerable to hacking "Because of a lack of safeguards, transmissions to and from the phone were left largely unprotected," it reported.

Iowa's Democratic Party caucus was thrown into chaos after the mobile app deployed among precinct workers failed because of a variety of technical problems.

The app was designed as a faster way to report results, rather than over the phone, as had been the tradition.

Questions have been raised as to why Iowa's Democratic Party chose to deploy an app that was designed over just a couple of months before the first major caucus of the election season.

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