Kentucky’s voter registration system is running software that could be exploited by hackers, according to a new report by ProPublica.
But Kentucky’s top elections official, Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes, says the system “has been and is secure.”
The state’s voter registration system includes a file-sharing software called FTP that allows public access to information. ProPublica’s reporting says that the service can act as a gateway for hackers to acquire key details that allow them to exploit a server’s vulnerabilities.