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Security researcher David Levin was arrested and held by US law enforcement after breaking into and disclosing vulnerabilities in the Lee County state elections web domain.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the 31-year-old Vanguard Cybersecurity chief compromised the Lee County website on 19 December last year.

The researcher's findings were disclosed in a video with Dan Sinclair, a candidate running against Supervisor of Elections Sharon Harrington for the post