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Hackers were able to break into US voting machines in less than two hours

Hackers were given the rare chance to crack into US voting machines at the 2017 Def Con hacking conference. It didn't take long.

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At Def Con — an annual hacking conference held in Las Vegas — hackers were given the rare chance to crack into US voting machines. It took one person just 90 minutes to hack in and vote remotely on one of the machines.

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