A person, or people, using the alias “Guccifer 2.0” dumped the data on a website on Friday and said it had been acquired in a computer breach of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a group that raises funds for Democratic members of the House of Representatives.
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Her comments came just a day after hackers posted personal information, including cell phone numbers and email addresses, for Democratic House members and staff. The party behind the Democrats’ hackings, which officials have said could be Russian hackers, said the DCCC hacking was “even easier than in the case of the DNC breach”.
She also warned her fellow Democrats not to allow family and children to access their messages.
Twitter Saturday suspended the account of Guccifer 2.0 – a day after a trove of documents hacked from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee were published. However, intelligence and law enforcement officials have told CNN Russia is the most likely suspect.
The DNC documents that were released last month proved intensely embarrassing for committee officials because they contained emails indicating that party leaders favored Hillary Clinton as their nominee over her rival, Sen. Ramsay also suggested House Democrats change passwords to all of their email accounts and “strongly consider” changing their non-House email addresses, as well.
Shortly after the documents were released Friday, Guccifer 2.0 answered a series of questions for Mother Jones via Twitter direct messaging.
Should lawmakers or staff receive any threats or observe suspicious activity, they should contact U.S. Capitol Police and local police, he said in the memo.
DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Lujan arranged a phone call for Democratic House members for Saturday evening to receive an update from cybersecurity experts who have been investigating and responding to the data breach.
“This is a sad course of events, not only for us, but more importantly for our country”, Pelosi wrote to her colleagues. Included in the spreadsheet were the personal information of members of the House Intelligence, Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees.
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The initial release of hacked documents from the DNC, and the subsequent release of almost 20,000 DNC emails and thousands of attachments by Wikileaks, showed signs that some Democratic Party officials did not like Bernie Sanders and discussed ways to undermine his campaign.
