Surfaced in Tuesday’s dump of purported Democratic National Committee documents by the hacker Guccifer 2.0 is a detailed list of well-heeled donors and the political positions they received.
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The documents also include memos from Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine’s time as governor of Virginia revealing his tech initiatives, as well as DNC donor information, voter outreach data and redistricting proposals.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as DNC chair on the eve of July’s Democratic National Convention after WikiLeaks published an earlier trove of hacked DNC emails that showed party officials favoring eventual nominee Hillary Clinton over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders during the party’s nominating contests.
This was a severe lack of oversight, but instead of taking any accountability, Interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile insisted the DNC is the victim of a crime waged by Russian agents who “seek to harm” the Democratic Party before November’s election.
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Democratic Party sources said the party and Clinton’s presidential campaign were deeply concerned about possible publication by WikiLeaks or other hackers of a new torrent of potentially embarrassing party information ahead of the November 8 election. “Like so numerous words Trump has uttered this election season, his statements encouraging cybercrime are risky, divisive and unprecedented”. He released the documents after delivering remarks – by proxy – at a cyber security conference Tuesday in London, Forbes reported. A Russian hacker who goes by the name Guccifer 2.0 uploaded the documents that he claimed were from the DNC computer network. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step down from her chairwoman post this past July expanded in scope Tuesday night when internet user Guccifer 2.0 leaked about 670 megabytes more in secret files, NBC News reported. However, intelligence and law enforcement officials have told CNN that Russian Federation is the most likely suspect. So far, the Obama administration has not publicly identified who it believes may be behind the hack.
