Georgia secretary of state's office says it repelled cyberattack

The secretary of state's office was the target of an unsuccessful cyberattack earlier this month, the agency confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. 

An official with the secretary of state's office said the attack was an attempt to crash the absentee voting website, and it was discovered when the agency noticed a spike in attempts to access the site nine days ago, on Oct. 14. There were over 420,000 attempts made from around the world, which the official said was a coordinated attempt to make the website crash.

Security experts were ultimately able to thwart the attack. The secretary of state's office said it still does not know who was behind the attack but suggested it may have been a foreign country.