U S ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 1335 East West Highway Suite 4300 Silver Spring MD 20910 For Immediate Release December 15 2016 Contact Bryan Whitener 301 563-3961 U S Election Assistance Commission Reports Potential Breach of Web-Facing Application The U S Election Assistance Commission EAC has become aware of a potential intrusion into an EAC web-facing application The EAC is currently working with Federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the potential breach and its effects The EAC does not administer elections State and local jurisdictions run elections The EAC's mission is to provide a clearinghouse of election administration best practices administer a voluntary voting machine certification system and survey election administration practices The EAC does not collect or store any personal information of voters The EAC does not maintain voter databases The EAC does not tabulate or store vote totals Upon detecting the intrusion the EAC terminated access to the application and began working with federal law enforcement agencies to determine the source of this criminal activity The FBI is currently conducting an ongoing criminal investigation As such questions concerning the investigation should be directed to the FBI ### This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu