Georgia‘s election website experienced a cyberattack earlier this month, affecting its online absentee ballot system.
Cyber Security company Cloudflare caught the attack before it could take the website offline completely within weeks of the election. Gabriel Sterling, chief operations officer to Georgia’s Secretary of State office, said it was a “probing attack” likely from “a foreign power or a foreign entity.”
“It slowed our systems down for a little bit, but it never stopped our systems from working,” Sterling told CNN.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Cloudflare for comment on the attack.
Six months earlier, Coffee County was the target of another cyberattack. As a result, the county website severed its connection to the state’s election website as a precaution.
“This was a big win for our cyber security team and our partners. We work everyday to protect Georgia voters and our systems,” Sterling assured his followers on X.