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The Federal Election Commission’s electronic filing system returned online Wednesday after an outage that lasted nearly two days. The FEC said a “bad actor” had tried to breach its systems; the reports do not say whether the attempt succeeded or whether any data was affected.
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The outage disrupted access to campaign finance disclosures during the final week of campaigning before the midterms. Filers and people tracking campaign spending were affected, though the reports do not establish that records were exposed or altered.