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This is in addition to the DNC. Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Democrats
The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters on Friday, follows reports of two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.
The U.S. Department of Justice national security division is investigating whether cyber hacking attacks on Democratic political organizations threatened U.S. security, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The involvement of the Justice Department’s national security division is a sign that the Obama administration has concluded that the hacking was state sponsored, individuals with knowledge of the investigation said.
The Clinton campaign, based in Brooklyn, had no immediate comment and referred Reuters to a comment from earlier this week by campaign senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan criticizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and calling the hacking "a national security issue."
The Department of Justice had no comment.
It was not immediately clear what information on the Clinton campaign’s computer system hackers would have been able to access.
Hackers, whom U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were Russian, gained access to the entire network of the fundraising Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, of DCCC, said people familiar with the matter, detailing the extent of the breach to Reuters for the first time.
Access to the full DCCC network would have given the hackers access to everything from emails to strategy memos and opposition research prepared to support Democratic candidates in campaigns for the House.
The hack of the DCCC, which is based in Washington, was reported first by Reuters on Thursday, ahead of Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia accepting the Democratic party’s nomination.
Russian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
The DCCC said in a statement early on Friday that it has hired cyber security firm CrowdStrike to investigate.
"We have taken and are continuing to take steps to enhance the security of our network," the DCCC said. "We are cooperating with federal law enforcement with respect to their ongoing investigation."
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as an IT guy with more than a bit of cyber security experience safeguarding large corporations sensitive data, i find it hard to believe all these email "hacks". good security policy, the right equipment & people and vigilance will stop 99.99999% of "hacks".
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Probably started with a phishing attack and somebody used common passphrases between DNC and Clinton accounts.
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as an IT guy with more than a bit of cyber security experience safeguarding large corporations sensitive data, i find it hard to believe all these email "hacks". good security policy, the right equipment & people and vigilance will stop 99.99999% of "hacks". They (Ds) have no competence. That's why our country is in the fix it's in now.
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as an IT guy with more than a bit of cyber security experience safeguarding large corporations sensitive data, i find it hard to believe all these email "hacks". good security policy, the right equipment & people and vigilance will stop 99.99999% of "hacks". Read an article saying it looked like targeted malware to get onto the people's computers. Lots of idiots out there that will still open up file attachments, and that still run under Windows on an admin account. I believe it.
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as an IT guy with more than a bit of cyber security experience safeguarding large corporations sensitive data, i find it hard to believe all these email "hacks". good security policy, the right equipment & people and vigilance will stop 99.99999% of "hacks". Read an article saying it looked like targeted malware to get onto the people's computers.
Lots of idiots out there that will still open up file attachments, and that still run under Windows on an admin account. I believe it. Through gay porn?
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as an IT guy with more than a bit of cyber security experience safeguarding large corporations sensitive data, i find it hard to believe all these email "hacks". good security policy, the right equipment & people and vigilance will stop 99.99999% of "hacks". This is why the Obamacare server cost $10 million and didn't work.
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ya and it could be that most of these politicians are friggen dinosaurs when it comes to computers and believe every email that says "you are the grand prize winner"
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To be honest, I'm sure sifting through the 'legit' Prince/General/Official wanting to give money to the Clinton Foundation or Global Initiative versus the average fake ones we all get is pretty tricky.
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as an IT guy with more than a bit of cyber security experience safeguarding large corporations sensitive data, i find it hard to believe all these email "hacks". good security policy, the right equipment & people and vigilance will stop 99.99999% of "hacks". Agreed. I don't think they are hacks as much as they are leaks.
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