Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has been hacked as part of a wider cyber attack against Democratic Party institutions, USA media have reported.
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It was reported on Friday that the FBI was investigating a broad cyber attack effort on the Democratic Party, after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s computer network was breached.
Last week the FBI has investigated the hack into the Democratic Party’s email system. Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside security experts.
According to CNN, DCCC spokesperson Meredith Kelly said in a statement: “The DCCC can confirm that we have been the target of a cybersecurity incident”.
“An analytics data program maintained by the DNC, and used by our campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed as part of the DNC hack”.
Reuters also reported that the US Department of Justice national security was also investigating whether the cyberattacks targeting the Democratic Party organizations had threatened national security. But the Kremlin denied involvement in the DCCC cyber-attack. The correspondence prompted the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Sunday, effective at the end of the party’s convention in Philadelphia.
In another intrusion, the Democratic Congressional Campaign, which oversees House races, said on Friday that its systems had been hacked.
It was not clear what information, if any, might have been gleamed from the Clinton campaign. Last Wednesday, Republican Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump, called for Russian Federation to hack Clinton’s e-mails.
This week, Trump encouraged Russian Federation to seek and release more than 30,000 other missing emails deleted by Clinton, the former secretary of state.
According to a New York Times report, the attack has come from Russian intelligence services. Based on the information we have to date, we have been advised by the officials of investigation agency that this is similar to other current incidents, including the DNC breach. She said her organization is “continuing to take steps to enhance the security of our network in the face of these recent events”. Officials at the DNC did not respond to requests for comment.
He refused to say how WikiLeaks obtained the leaked emails, but pointed to reports that the DNC had previously been told its systems were vulnerable and had been compromised by hackers.
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But she said: “It wouldn’t surprise me”.
