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11-year-old boy hacks into government website in 10minutes

August 14, 2018

11-year-old Emmett Brewster was able to hack into a replica website used by the Florida Secretary of State to report election results and changed the election results 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.

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