Hackers Can Seize Control of Ballots Cast Using the Voatz Voting App

Hackers Can Seize Control of Ballots Cast Using the Voatz Voting App

Flaws in the blockchain app some states plan to use in the 2020 election allow bad actors to alter or cancel someone’s vote or expose their private info.

Security researchers have found key flaws in a mobile voting app that some states plan to use in the 2020 election that can allow hackers to launch both clients- and server-side attacks that can easily manipulate or even delete someone’s vote, as well as prevent a reliable audit from taking place after the fact, they said.

By Elizabeth Montalbano

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