BLITZER: There's breaking news we're following, we're learning hackers have breached databases for election systems in Illinois and Arizona. The personal data of as many as 200,000 registered voters has apparently been compromised. Our justice correspondent, Evan Perez, is joining us. Evan, you got new information. What do we know about this hack? Could it have any effect on the general election coming up in November?</s>EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, the systems that were hacked were voter registration systems. In the case of Illinois, there were about 200,000 records, voter registration, personal information of voters, including parts of their Social Security number, their addresses, and stuff like that was stolen by hackers. In the case of Arizona, officials there say they believe someone downloaded a virus and may have compromised access into the system. It's not clear whether anything at all -- any records were touched as of yet. Both of those cases are under investigation by the FBI. As far as damage or concern about the election system, we're told that both of these systems, as it is generally around the country, are not connected to the Internet. So the systems, the voting machines where people cast ballots as well as a tabulation system, are generally separate and not connected to the Internet. So that is one way to make sure that hackers can't get in and can't change the result of an election. That's obviously the big concern here. In this case, the FBI is very much worried about personal information of voters that may be stolen by criminal groups that want to use it to steal money and other information from voters. So that's one thing we have to be concerned in these two cases -- Wolf?</s>BLITZER: It's still a very, very worrisome development. If you hear about 200,000 people, their information has been compromised or hacked like this, clearly, there's a lot more information we need to know about what is going on. Evan Perez, thank you very much. Thanks it for me. I'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "The Situation Room." For our international viewers, "Amanpour" is next. For our viewers in North America, NEWSROOM with Brooke Baldwin starts.
Hackers Breach Election Systems Databases in Illinois, Arizona.