KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A cybersecurity firm is investigating an attack that disabled a Tennessee county's election website, officials said Wednesday.

Knox County information and technology senior director Richard Moran said someone "with malicious intent" crashed a website that was reporting results after polls closed Tuesday in a primary election.

Moran said no voting data was affected. But the site was down for an hour before technicians fixed the "denial of service" problem.

Some of the unusually heavy traffic came from overseas servers, but that doesn't mean that the attacker was in a foreign country, Moran said.
"It brought the system down to its knees," he said.

Knoxville-based Sword & Shield Enterprise Security is investigating. The FBI is not involved in the investigation, but that could change, said Public Affairs Specialist Joyce McCants.

In the Republican primary for county mayor, Glenn Jacobs, also known as the pro wrestler Kane, leads Brad Anders by 17 votes, with provisional ballots needing to be verified and possibly counted.