The Denver district attorney has launched an investigation into how a spreadsheet of voting system passwords ended up on the Colorado secretary of state’s website earlier this year.

Secretary Jena Griswold said she'd hired an outside law firm to look into the incident. That won't satisfy her critics.

Colorado officials confirmed passwords to election equipment have been updated more than a week after partial passwords were posted online.

A one-day trial over whether election machines in 34 Colorado counties should be shut down took place in Denver District Court on Monday, a day before the general election. At issue was a massive leak of hundreds of election equipment passwords,

Colorado officials said Friday that the state’s elections are secure after a spreadsheet including a list of passwords used to access voting systems was inadvertently posted on the Secretary of State’s website.

The Denver district attorney’s office has opened an investigation into the leak of voting system passwords that were posted to a Colorado state website in June before being taken down last month

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office has hired a new law firm to investigate how passwords to Colorado’s voting machines ended up online. Attorneys Beth Quinn and J. Mark Baird with the law firm Baird Quinn LLC will look into the security breach.