FEC filing systems went offline after a suspected hacking attempt, delaying disclosure of millions in late election spending.
Cyberattack concealed political spending by big donors before US midterm elections
AA Astro Awani 
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A cyberattack disrupted the FEC's filing system, hiding political spending data during the US midterms.
- The FEC's system was offline for 41 hours due to a cyberattack.
- Super PACs and dark money groups' spending went unreported during the outage.
- The outage occurred during a peak spending period for the midterms.
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