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FBI Probes Hacking of Democratic Congressional Group (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the this-isn't-over dept.

From a Reuters report: The FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another U.S. Democratic Party group, which may be related to an earlier hack against the Democratic National Committee , four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The previously unreported incident at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, and its potential ties to Russian hackers are likely to heighten accusations, so far unproven, that Moscow is trying to meddle in the U.S. presidential election campaign to help Republican nominee Donald Trump. The Kremlin denied involvement in the DCCC cyber-attack. Hacking of the party's emails caused discord among Democrats at the party's convention in Philadelphia to nominate Hillary Clinton as its presidential candidate. The newly disclosed breach at the DCCC may have been intended to gather information about donors, rather than to steal money, the sources said on Thursday.

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  1. Re: Cue the idiots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actual quote:
    "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press"

    Trump asked hackers to travel back in time and hack the server when it was still online?
    or
    The server is still online which would be a pretty big story itself.
    or
    He asked them to release the emails they already have.

    I wonder which one it is.

  2. Re: Cue the idiots by Kierthos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or he was just saying shit to stay in the news cycle. Don't get me wrong, I'm not apologizing for Trump. But he has a pathological need for attention. So, he says all kinds of stupid shit to get attention, and then gets more attention by saying it was a joke, or you "obviously" misunderstood him.

    So, yeah, not something you want in a President. Not that Hillary Clinton is perfect by any stretch of the imagination, mind you, but I'm not up for giving the launch codes to a temperamental man-baby.

    --
    Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
  3. Re: Cue the idiots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Better properties than uranium.

    Right wing NY Times story:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0

  4. Re: Cue the idiots by Crashmarik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah it's a sad day in America when we need the Russians to expose our corruption.

    Because the Media and the Justice System won't do their damn jobs.

  5. Re: Cue the idiots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We can hope that he wont at least strip the classification off the material and then have that 0information transferred to an insecure email server.

    Look at the bright side, he might say something that breaches national security and they could jail him. Oh wait a minute, maybe not, because when Hillary actually did that very same thing they didn't.

    Oh no we mustn't trust Trump.