2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumExclusive: More evidence that Trump's campaign chairman is connected to the Russian hackers
Essentially a DNC staffer started researching Donald Trumps campaign chairman Paul Manafort. We know Manafort has extensive connections to the Russians. That staffer's email was under cyber attack almost intermediately after they started researching Manafort's connections to Russia.
The Obama administration is looking into this very closely according to this article.
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Exclusive: Suspected Russian hack of DNC widens includes personal email of staffer researching Manafort
Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trumps campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.
Important action required, read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as the Paranoids. We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.
Chalupa who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manaforts connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine quickly alerted top DNC officials. Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often, she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNCs communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.
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There are also signs that the Obama administration is taking the matter more seriously. The Washington Post reported Monday that White House officials convened a high-level security meeting last Thursday, hours before WikiLeaks began posting the emails, to review information about the DNC attack. Party officials are privately pushing the White House to publicly blame the Russians in the same way it blamed North Korea for the cyberattack on Sony and China for intrusions into U.S. companies. The last time somebody broke into the DNC, it led to the resignation of a president, said the Democratic Party security source, referring to the Watergate scandal. In some ways, the source insisted, the current cyberheist what some in party circles are already calling a 21st century Watergate is even more sinister, the source said. This is the Russians screwing with the integrity of our election process.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hacked-emails-of-dnc-oppo-researcher-point-to-russians-and-wider-penetration-154121061.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Trump is but the Whore of Putin.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)dirty tricks are dirty tricks
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)that's why changing passwords doesn't stop the hack. start using a different computer, change pw with that.