An 11-year-old boy hacked into a replica website used by the
Florida Secretary of State to report election results and changed the election
results once he gained access into the site.
11-year-old Emmett Brewster was able to hack it in just 10
minutes. This happened last Friday at this year’s DEFCON hacking conference in
Las Vegas.
At the conference, Emmett and many other children were
offered the chance to hack into a mock-up of a Secretary of State website.
According to DEFCON spokespeople, the kids were offered 13 replicas of
Secretary of State Websites, with Florida being the first. Emmett succeeded in
hacking Florida's website in only a few minutes.
Emmett was one of about 50 children between the ages of 8
and 16 who took part in a kid-specific workshop at this year’s hacker
conference. According to Quartz, the kids were able to manipulate various
things on the mock websites, including vote counts, candidate names, and party
names.
