Dan Sinclair and David Levin, CEO of Vanguard Cybersecurity, hacked into the Lee elections website a couple of weeks ago, said Vicki Collins, spokeswoman for the Lee County Supervisor of Elections.
“There was an attempted hacking of the website, but this is an ongoing investigation of the website,” she said. “The info they accessed was an old server with no (useful) information on it … Nobody is compromised.”
All the men accessed were intra-office passwords from about a year and a half ago.
“This office did not invite them into the website,” Collins said.
Sinclair is running for supervisor position against the incumbent Supervisor of Elections Sharon Harrington
The men posted the hacking to YouTube and contacted Harrington “to tell her that they had done this,” Collins said.
Harrington then contacted Lee Sheriff Mike Scott, who told her to go to the FDLE.
When asked about the case, Molly Best, an FDLE spokeswoman, said: “There was a search warrant (that was served).”
But because it is an active investigation, “we’re not able to release anything at this time,” Best said.
Best would not say when the warrant was served.
Collins reassured that not voter information or history was accessed.
She said the hacking “had nothing whatsoever with the tabulation center” which is in a separate system “that is not even able to be accessed by the Internet.”