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RandySF

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Sat Aug 13, 2016, 07:53 PM Aug 2016

Dems flooded with vulgar, suspicious messages following online data dump

House Democratic leaders on Saturday urged members to upgrade their security as staffers were flooded with vulgar, malicious emails and texts following a massive online dump of their contact information late Friday -- the latest fallout of a series of election-season cyberattacks primarily targeting the Democratic Party.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, calling the incident a "sad course of events," wrote in a note to colleagues that she was changing her phone number and advised colleagues to do the same. An email from the Democratic Caucus told members and staffers whom to contact to do so.

“I was in the air flying from Florida to California when the news broke,” Pelosi wrote. “Upon landing, I have received scores of mostly obscene and sick calls, voice mails and text messages.”

Other aides told POLITICO that overnight they received dozens, even hundreds of spear phishing-style emails and texts, which are fake messages that lure recipients into clicking on malware-laded links, possibly infecting the entire device.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/democrats-cyberhack-house-226985#ixzz4HG9kOixg

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Dems flooded with vulgar, suspicious messages following online data dump (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2016 OP
Welcome to our world Congress-happens all the time with we little people. MichiganVote Aug 2016 #1
Gee, I wonder who could be behind these dirty tricks and illegal activities? Not Nixon, right? Coyotl Aug 2016 #2
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