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Georgia election official says battleground state fended off cyberattack likely from a foreign country | CNN Politics

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Georgia 's secretary of state fended off a cyberattack believed to have come from a foreign country.

The state’s cyber defenses — aided by tech firm Cloudflare — repelled the hackers’ attempts to knock the absentee ballot website offline.

Hundreds of thousands of IP addresses from numerous countries flooded the Georgia website with bogus traffic.

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