Mark Ard, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of State, said the emails had targeted voters in multiple counties but there "has been no breach to Florida's Voter Registration database." Gail Fenumiai, Alaska's director of the Division of Elections, said the office "has no evidence from the FBI that the state's voter registration systems have been compromised." Sophia Solis, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Department of State, said Arizona's voter database "is secure and not affected by incidents reported nationally." Varying degrees of voter registration information is considered public record in all three states. Officials from elections offices in the three states targeted by the spoofed Proud Boys emails told CBS News there have been no breaches to their voter rolls. The agencies warned that some of the networks might house election-related data, but said there is "no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised." On Thursday, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory stating that Russia had targeted the networks of dozens of state, local and tribal governments since late September, and successfully stole data from at least two of them as of October 1. "This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos and undermine your confidence in American democracy," Ratcliffe said. Others included a link to a video showing a computer user appearing to access voters' registration information to fraudulently complete absentee ballots used by Americans overseas. Some of the emails included the recipients' home addresses and other personal information. The emails, which were routed through servers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Estonia and Moldova to obscure their origin, included threats to "come after" voters unless they voted for President Trump. Hundreds of Democratic voters in Florida, Alaska and Arizona received threatening emails Tuesday and Wednesday claiming to have come from the far-right group The Proud Boys, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights advocacy group. officials said Iran and Russia obtained some voter registration data, which Iran then used to send a recent spate of threatening emails to voters, officials in three states targeted in the email scheme say their voter databases have not been compromised. Russia and Iran are actively interfering in 2020 election, officials warn 02:01
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