(FILES) This file photo taken on January 29, 2010 shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. A top secret National Security Agency document shows that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year's presidential election, The Intercept reported on June 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB
WASHINGTON: A top secret US report showing that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year’s presidential election raised new alarms about the extent of Moscow’s meddling.
But the alleged leak of the National Security Agency document by one of the tens of thousands of private contractors to US spy agencies, barely one month after the report was written, became the newest embarrassment for the US intelligence community.
