The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the hack into the computer network used by the Clinton campaign, Reuters first reported, suggesting a wide effort to infiltrate networks used by the Democratic Party. The program was maintained by the DNC and had been available to the Clinton campaign and other entities.
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Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said: “Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts”.
The Clinton campaign took pains Friday to assert that its own internal systems weren’t compromised by the hack of the DNC analytics service.
But still, the U.S. Department of Justice national security division is also investigating the matter to find out if this attack could compromise the internal security of the country.
But the incident does not appear to involve Clinton campaign email.
Many in the US intelligence community believe hackers linked to the Russian government were behind the DNC hack, but Director of National Intelligence James Clapper cautioned on Thursday against jumping to conclusions.
News of the attack also came just hours after the DCCC confirmed reports that it was hacked as well, saying the breach was similar to the one that targeted the DNC.
A hack on Democratic National Committee servers resulted in last week’s embarrassing leak of emails that revealed how party leaders sought to undermine Clinton’s Democratic White House rival Bernie Sanders.
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said on Friday the reported breach showed cyber security is “a problem wherever Hillary Clinton goes”.
Russian Federation has dismissed the United States allegations of interfering in the country’s presidential election.
The Kremlin previously denied its involvement in the DNC hack, though both us security personnel and cyber experts agreed there was evidence Russian Federation was behind it. Democrats accused him of trying to get a foreign adversary to conduct espionage that could affect this November’s elections, but Trump later said he was merely being sarcastic.
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Meredith Kelly, a spokeswoman for the congressional committee, said that after it discovered the breach, “we immediately took action and engaged with CrowdStrike, a leading forensic investigator, to assist us in addressing this incident”.
