Czech election websites hacked, vote unaffected - Statistics Office


  • World
  • Monday, 23 Oct 2017

A man casts his vote in parliamentary elections at a polling station in Prague, Czech Republic October 20, 2017. REUTERS/David W Cerny

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The websites used for presentation of the Czech Republic's election results were hacked on Saturday afternoon, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said on Sunday, adding that the vote count was not affected.

Czechs voted on Friday and Saturday in the parliamentary election, with the results then shown on two websites that CSU maintains with an outside provider.

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