“Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts”.
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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.
The FBI warned the Clinton campaign that it was a target of a cyberattack last March, just weeks before the Democratic National Committee discovered it had been penetrated by hackers it now believes were working for Russian intelligence, two sources who have been briefed on the matter told Yahoo News.
While it’s unclear what was accessed, a political expert says this type of hack is unprecedented.
The private investigators believe it is similar to the Democratic National Committee hack, but federal investigators are still working to determine the scope and nature of the intrusion, the official explained.
The Trump campaign also weighed in by making light of the cyber crime and instead noted Clinton’s previous email scandal.
The FBI’s chief of cyber investigations James Trainor told CNN in an interview recently that hackers have targeted political party entities and think tanks in Washington.
Clinton deleted the emails from her private server, saying they were private, before handing other messages over to the State Department.
As a report surfaced July 29 that the campaign website of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was hacked, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee confirmed that it was breached shortly after the Democratic National Committee announced that it, too, had been hacked.
The committee said in a statement it has hired cyber security firm CrowdStrike to investigate.
After emails were leaked from the DNC hack, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday invited Russian Federation to dig up thousands of “missing” emails from Clinton’s time at the State Department, prompting Democrats to accuse him of urging foreigners to spy on Americans.
Neither the DCCC, nor investigators named any culprits in the attack on DCCC, but Reuters reported citing its anonymous sources that the fake site’s IP address “resembled one used by Russian government-linked hackers suspected in the breach of the” DNC. She said her organization is “continuing to take steps to enhance the security of our network in the face of these recent events”.
The DNC is supposed to stay neutral during primary races, and the breach led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Hours later, Trump claimed that he was being sarcastic when he made the remarks.
The Clinton campaign took pains Friday to assert that its internal emails, voicemails or other internal communications and documents weren’t compromised by the hack of the DNC analytics service. “This is an ongoing investigation and we’re not able to provide further comments”, the statement said.
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