FEC campaign finance system offline days before midterms after hackers reportedly target site
Summary
Federal election systems experienced an unexpected outage just days before the midterm elections following reported cyber attacks. Meanwhile, market tracking data shows that overall political advertising expenditures and reserved funds for the upcoming 2026 election cycle have already reached over eleven billion dollars.
Total political ad spending and reservations for the 2026 cycle have topped $11.2 billion, according to AdImpact.
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