Days after thousands of Democratic National Committee emails damaging to Ms Clinton’s nomination were leaked, it has been revealed that email systems specifically used in her election campaign have also been hacked in the same attack.
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On Friday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which raises money and provides other assistance for Democratic House candidates, acknowledged a digital break-in of its computers that it said resembled the DNC hack.
“Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cybersecurity experts”, he said. Party officials deny such claims, stating that external cyber experts were hired and they didn’t find any evidence of a breach in the system.
As for the Clinton campaign hack, a campaign aide told the paper that the voter data the hackers accessed contained no Social Security or credit card numbers, which was a controversial piece of the Wikileaks DNC data dump.
Another official said that the Justice Department’s national security division, which was already investigating the DNC intrusion, is also handling the investigation. That the DOJ has gotten involved likely indicates President Obama believes the hack was sponsored by another country.
There is no information yet as to what, if any, data from the Clinton campaign was compromised in the latest incident.
The DCCC, which is the political arm for House Democrats, confirmed on Friday it had been the subject of a cyberhack, raising the possibility that alleged Russian hackers might have breached a much broader swath of Democratic records than originally thought.
The FBI said Friday that it was examining reports of “cyberintrusions involving multiple political entities” but did not identify the targets of the attacks.
Hackers, whom intelligence officials have concluded were Russian, gained access to the entire network of the fundraising Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee or DCCC, said people familiar with the matter, detailing the extent of the breach to Reuters for the first time. Last Wednesday, Republican Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump, called for Russian Federation to hack Clinton’s e-mails.
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Reports of hackers breaching the security of tech companies and government organizations are not new.
