Investigation launched into Colorado voting systems security breach

The 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Denver is investigating alleged violations of elections laws following the publication of voting machine passwords by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office during the run-up to the Nov. 5 general election.
A Nov. 8 press release from the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Colorado Springs stated that the Denver DA’s Office requested its cooperation in the Denver office’s investigation. 
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The list of passwords to voting machines across the state was accidentally published on a “subpage” of the Secretary of State’s website, according to an office spokesman. The office learned of the leaked list on Oct. 24. The spreadsheet was publicly available for five months before the office was alerted of its exposure. 
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said her office contacted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that same day. 
A day later, the office determined voting systems in 34 of Colorado’s 64 counties were impacted. The office did not explain the details of those impacts other than to say no settings had been changed on any of the impacted active voting equipment.
All the passwords were reset by the end of business on Oct. 31.
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Griswold’s communications director, Jack Todd, told CBS News Colorado that an employee accidentally made the passwords public. That staff member “amicably left the department” before the leak was discovered.