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posted by n1 on Sunday August 14 2016, @11:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the known-unknowns dept.

Congressional Leaders Were Briefed a Year Ago on Hacking of Democrats

Reuters is reporting that US intelligence officials were aware a year ago that Russian efforts were being made to attack the Democratic Party. Moreover, they informed top congressional leaders who were prevented from telling the targets about the attack because the information was so secret.

From the article:

The disclosure of the Top Secret information would have revealed that U.S. intelligence agencies were continuing to monitor the hacking, as well as the sensitive intelligence sources and the methods they were using to do it.

The material was marked with additional restrictions and assigned a unique codeword, limiting access to a small number of officials who needed to know that U.S. spy agencies had concluded that two Russian intelligence agencies or their proxies were targeting the Democratic National Committee, the central organizing body of the Democratic Party.

The National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies sometimes delay informing targets of foreign intelligence activities under similar circumstances, officials have said.

The alleged hacking of the Democrats and the Russian connection did not become public until late last month when the FBI said it was investigating a cyber attack at the DNC. The DNC did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Hacker Releases Personal Data of Around 200 Congressional Democrats

There has been another leak of U.S. Democratic Party data, this time including the personal phone numbers and email addresses of House Democrats. Memos and opposition research were also included:

The hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 dumped the personal contact info of House Democrats on his website Friday, part of the latest batch of documents from a widespread breach of Democratic groups.

The document was obtained from the cyberattack on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The hacker also published DCCC shared passwords to several online databases and news networks.

The release has been listed at https://cryptome.org/.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @03:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @03:18PM (#387866)

    > There’s every reason to believe that the Kremlin has her emails from her time as secretary of state,

    And whether she used a private server or a government one makes no difference. What's more valuable than the email of the Secretary of State? The email of the entire State Department. [reuters.com]

    Any high-value system on the internet is compromised because the economics are just so lop-sided that a consistent defense is effectively impossible. The only question is how long have hackers been in the system without being detected?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:25PM (#387992)

    I'm not voting for her, but just to be a devil's advocate, I'm not so sure about that. Is Clinton's email, which contained classified information, really worth less than all the unclassified emails in the entire State Department?