Federal Election Commission Takes Down Filings Website After Reported Hacking Attempt

The Federal Election Commission took its electronic filings system offline on Tuesday to address a reported hacking attempt. The agency confirmed that the system remained unavailable throughout the day while dealing with the incident. Although the FEC acknowledged the outage and the reported attack, it did not provide specific details regarding the nature of the hacking attempt. The electronic filings system was disabled as a direct response to the security threat reported by the agency.