There is no doubt that DNC officials who – in the midst of a storm over Clinton’s use of a private server while secretary of state – failed to secure their own network, apparently letting in more than one hacker team.
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Separately, Fox News was told the DNC was warned by government agencies about a non-specific threat to their systems before the breach, based on the targeting of the State Department and White House.
Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks at the weekend released almost 20,000 e-mails from between January last year and May this year, gleaned by hackers who apparently raided the accounts of seven Democratic National Committee leaders.
“We can say with some degree of confidence that they don’t like Hillary”, Rumer said.
“It is certainly well known that the Kremlin uses Russian hackers for a variety of missions”, said Stavridis, who led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from 2009 to 2013.
Nonetheless, the FBI is investigating the leak.
Earlier on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed it was investigating a hack into the DNC, the first acknowledgment from the agency that they are probing the incident, which US officials suspect came from a Russian cyber attack. In the wake of the disclosure, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday afternoon that she would resign from her leadership role at the end of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week.
Analysts say the Kremlin would welcome a Trump win because the billionaire US businessman has repeatedly praised Putin, spoken of wanting to get along with Russian Federation, and has said he would consider an alliance with Moscow against Islamic State. The group didn’t identify the source.
The FBI suspects that Russian government hackers breached the networks of the Democratic National Committee and stole emails that were posted to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks on Friday.
They added no fresh intrusions had so far been detected at the Republican National Convention or the campaigns of the two major party candidates.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday suggested the goal of the hack was to benefit Republican Donald Trump’s campaign.
“I don’t think it’s coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here, and I think that’s disturbing”, Mook told CNN’s “State of the Union”.
The hackers also left an obvious digital fingerprint, one cybersecurity expert said, perhaps on objective: a signature in Russia’s Cyrillic alphabet. The consultant had been in contact with journalists in the Ukraine about Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, apparently trying to establish an alleged link between Manafort and Russian Federation. The Republican candidate has called into doubt the US commitment to its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation obligations and even suggested that he might not defend alliance members if they are attacked by Russian Federation.
But in this case the hacking and the release of embarrassing information is going against Trump’s opponents.
“Usually, the Russians are not ham-handed”, said Jim Lewis, a cyber security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. We’re pleased about the Clinton camp’s newfound commitment to IT security.
“The FBI is investigating the incident and it’s important for the FBI to do its work”, Kerry said. She – and she’s working hard to earn everyone’s vote and we are working hard to unify this party. The FBI’s spoken to this.
The Vermont senator says he’s hopeful that “our people treat the process with respect” and not engage in demonstrations or booing on the floor.
Trump was in free association mode, so it was impossible to tell immediately if he was being deliberately outrageous, making yet another false statement, or saying something partially or entirely true. He wouldn’t discuss the DNC or the role of Russian Federation, but spoke generally about the increased number of such intrusions. “The plot here is potentially wilder than ‘The Manchurian Candidate, ‘” he said, referring to a best-selling political thriller that came out in 1959 in the midst of the Cold War. “There’s value in information there if you’re a nation state actor, so (it) shouldn’t be surprising”.
Donald Trump ridiculed allegations that Russian Federation released the DNC e-mails to benefit his campaign.
Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, for example, said its reporters saw dossiers of a US intelligence investigation labeled “Russian influence activity”, containing material about Kremlin actions in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France and the Netherlands. He said Russian Federation was believed to have hacked Democratic and Republican campaigns in 2008, but that it did not leak material.
Clinton’s campaign stood firmly behind their claims of Russian involvement Monday. The group also said that there would be more leaks related to the US election.
Typically, spy agencies collect such information to try to better inform their governments about USA politics. USA spy agencies do the same overseas. So if the Russians are trying to rig the American election they’re trying to do so in Trump’s favor. “I raised the question and we will continue to work to see precisely what those facts are”. “I think I’d get along great with him, if you want to know the truth”.
The impact of the release of the DNC hacked emails was nearly immediate, prompting the ouster of the head of one of the two major political parties.
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Most people probably only heard about the hack this weekend, after the WikiLeaks release.
