Exclusive: Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Democrats - sources
Source: Reuters
The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters on Friday, follows reports of two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.
The U.S. Department of Justice national security division is investigating whether cyber hacking attacks on Democratic political organizations threatened U.S. security, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The involvement of the Justice Department’s national security division is a sign that the Obama administration has concluded that the hacking was state sponsored, individuals with knowledge of the investigation said.
Read more: www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-democrats-investigation-exc-idUSKCN1092HK
FBI warned Clinton campaign last spring of cyberattack
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.
In a meeting with senior officials at the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters, FBI agents laid out concerns that cyberhackers had used so-called spear-phishing emails as part of an attempt to penetrate the campaign’s computers, the sources said. One of the sources said agents conducting a national security investigation asked the Clinton campaign to turn over internal computer logs as well as the personal email addresses of senior campaign officials. But the campaign, through its lawyers, declined to provide the data, deciding that the FBI’s request for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and intrusive, the source said.
A second source who had been briefed on the matter and who confirmed the Brooklyn meeting said agents provided no specific information to the campaign about the identity of the cyberhackers or whether they were associated with a foreign government. The source said the campaign was already aware of attempts to penetrate its computers and had taken steps to thwart them, emphasizing that there is still no evidence that the campaign’s computers had actually been successfully penetrated.
But the potential that the intruders were associated with a foreign government should have come as no surprise to the Clinton campaign, said several sources knowledgeable about the investigation. Chinese intelligence hackers were widely reported to have penetrated both the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008.
The Brooklyn warning also could raise new questions about why the campaign and the DNC didn’t take the matter more seriously. It came just four months after the DNC had also been contacted by FBI agents alerting its information technology specialists about a cyberattack on its computers, the sources told Yahoo News. As with the warning to the Clinton campaign, the FBI initially provided no details to the DNC.
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Thinkingabout
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Cryptoad
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avaistheone1
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leftofcool
(19,460 posts)The FBI did not give the campaign enough information so there was a refusal to disclose other people's private data to them.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)It seems like the only particular personal information the FBI requested per this article is email addresses of senior campaign officials. I don't understand why providing those would be a problem under the circumstances given the FBI was trying to solve who had hacked their Clinton campaign.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)The sad thing is they were right.
C_U_L8R
(45,047 posts)TRUMPSKI.
matt819
(10,749 posts)1. Knowing that they're being hacked, this is s good opportunity to spread disinformation, have trump repeat that, and confirm that he's conspiring with the Russians.
2. I do hope they've created a new network get is absolutely secure.
Sand Rat Expat
(290 posts)There's no such thing as "absolute" security when it comes to networks. If you can build it, someone else can break it. You can make it a pure pain in the ass to hack into it, but if someone has enough time, money, and willpower, they can get around your security.
chowder66
(9,115 posts)"Clinton Campaign Says a Voter Analytics Program Was Hacked, but Not Its Internal Computer System"
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/report-clinton-campaign-also-hacked.html
"The Clinton presidential campaign said Friday that an “analytics data program” maintained by the Democratic National Committee had been hacked but that its computer system had not been compromised, denying news reports from earlier in the day that the campaign had become the third Democratic Party organization whose systems had been penetrated.
So far, campaign computer experts “have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised,” campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement.
Merrill said that “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.” The campaign did not provide details, but a source familiar with the situation said that the hacked material was generally dull and did not include email communications, memos, research or other potentially inflammatory communications. Mostly, the source said, it included innocuous data such as computer code and lists of email addresses."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-denies-reports-that-its-computer-system-was-hacked/2016/07/29/1c05afe2-55b9-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html
kurt_cagle
(534 posts)I'm noting that the Wingnut Twitterati are now suggesting that the DNC deliberately hacked itself in order to plant the story that they were being attacked by the Russians. Curious how the RNC HASN'T been hacked.
