CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press
CHAD DAY, Associated Press

The Department of Homeland Security has notified two states that Russian hackers attempted to scan networks other than state election systems in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, contrary to details provided last week.

On Wednesday, California became the second state — after Wisconsin — to be notified of the revised intelligence.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says in a statement that homeland security officials now say the “scanning” activity took place on the state technology department’s network and not on the Secretary of State website, as the state was told last week.

Homeland Security last week notified election officials in 21 states that their systems were targeted last year “by Russian government cyber actors seeking vulnerabilities and access to U.S. election infrastructure.” Most systems were not breached.

States that told The Associated Press they had been targeted include Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. In most cases, they had not known until notified Friday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Homeland Security officials tell the AP that in September hackers believed to be Russian agents targeted voter registration systems in more than 20 states.

The disclosure to the states comes as a special counsel probes whether there was any coordination during the 2016 presidential campaign between Russia and associates of Donald Trump.

Trump won the election and calls the Russia story a hoax.