State election recounts confirm Trump win but reveal hacking vulnerabilities

'No evidence of attack' in full or partial state recounts, but worries persist that voting machine companies could be 'central' targets of future breaches

The US presidential election was correct, according to a crowdfunded effort to recount the vote in key states, but the review also highlighted the unprecedented extent to which the American political system is vulnerable to cyberattack, according to two computer scientists who helped the effort to audit the vote.

J Alex Halderman and Matt Bernhard, both of the University of Michigan, campaigned in favor of a recount of the US presidential election, which was eventually spearheaded by Jill Stein, the Green party candidate.