The cellphone numbers of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland were among the information posted.
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She also warned her fellow Democrats not to allow family and children to access their messages.
Micro-blogging website Twitter suspended the account of Guccifer 2.0 – a hacker (or hackers) who compromised Democratic National Committee’s (DCC) computer network and leaked its emails – on Saturday, after it revealed a cache of information stolen in a cyber-assault.
Pelosi told Democratic lawmakers that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democratic Party entities were the target of “an electronic Watergate break-in”. Also included in the spreadsheet were the cell phone numbers of Nancy Pelosi, D-calif, the House of Representatives minority leader, and Steny Hoyer, D-Md, the House minority whip.
Pelosi says that since cellphone numbers have been posted online, she’s received scores of harassing calls.
This hacker hacked the first episode of these documents and released by the WIKIleaks and now on Friday night the hacker again tweeted that another major trove of documents of Democratic Party has been sent to the WIKI leaks.
Guccifer 2.0, who has described himself as a “hacktivist” and a “freedom fighter”, also said that he is an enemy of “all the illuminati and rich clans which try to rule the governments”.
Friday’s was the latest release of information from cyber-attacks – including those by groups with purported ties to Russian Federation – against Democratic organizations as the 2016 elections heat up. She said that the Capitol Police and the Sergeant-at-Arms are conducting an ongoing threat assessment.
President Barack Obama said in late July that Russian Federation may have been behind the leak of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails.
John Ramsey, the House’s chief information security officer, sent a memo to lawmakers and aides whose information had been made public urging them to change passwords for all their accounts and to consider changing their non-House email addresses.
DCCC Chair Ben Ray Luján set up a members’ call at 6 p.m. with cybersecurity experts investigating the breach to provide an update and security guidance.
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“Word began to spread on Friday evening among Democrats whose personal information was posted and several became furious, a congressional staffer said”. The DNC is supposed to stay neutral during primaries, and the revelation led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other staffers.
