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Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers
An anonymous reader writes: Hillary Clinton's campaign network was breached by hackers targeting several large Democratic organizations, Reuters reports. Clinton's campaign spokesperson Nick Merrill confirmed the hack in a statement. '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. Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised,' he said.
The hack follows on the heels of breaches at the Democratic National Committee and at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earlier this year. More than 19,000 emails from DNC officials were published on WikiLeaks just prior to the Democratic National Convention, casting a shadow over the proceedings. Some security experts and U.S. officials have attributed the breaches to Russian operatives, although the origin of the email leak is less certain.
The hack follows on the heels of breaches at the Democratic National Committee and at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earlier this year. More than 19,000 emails from DNC officials were published on WikiLeaks just prior to the Democratic National Convention, casting a shadow over the proceedings. Some security experts and U.S. officials have attributed the breaches to Russian operatives, although the origin of the email leak is less certain.
I don't care which country did it, it only proves how lackluster our security is in this country. Maybe if they stop outsourcing and under appreciating IT, this will stop happening.
*yawn*
I blame the hack on a Youtube video.
That criminal witch is untouchable, so I don't see the point of further hacks. She should be headed to prison instead of the White House.
I am reminded of the scene from red October.
"youve lost .... another submarine"
Yeah, we're already getting the usual political blather from the mouth breathers, but of real interest to /. readers, does anyone know how the data on the DNC and Clinton campaign computers was accessed? What was the hole by which the servers were breached? Was this a zero-day vulnerability? Were the servers breached by a known vulnerability? Social engineering? Sloppy configuration? I've maintained mail servers that, to my knowledge, have never been hacked. Is this just because I've never been targeted by someone with this set of resources, or am I don't something that the administrators of these servers were not?
Hack me once, shame on you.
Hack me twice, shame on me.
They mean someone downloaded their spreadsheet. Because a spreadsheet is an analytics program.
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You know this is going to be nothing but a blamefest there, Odds on the wicked witch will have flying monkeys coming out her ass.
Why not stop doing shit you have to hide, like treason, election fraud, and murder? Then when they breach your email, they won't be able to do anything with it.
I don't. They're bad people and they deserve to suffer.
Trump asks Russia to hack Hilary. :)
Trump then says "I was being sarcastic"
Russia Hacks Hilary (apparently it was them, they deny it.)
Oh and not forgetting the feminist ho-ha over Hilary not making the front pages for her nomination.
My Questions are:
1) Can Hilary really continue to be a "victim" (as she was when Bill got a BJ in the Oval) and be voted for as leader? People don't vote victims into power, they vote for strong leaders.
2) If you are mad enough to consider voting for Trump does the fact that the Russian's are trying to help him put you off. If it does who do you vote for?
3) Maybe McAfee isn't such a bad choice?
4) Should there be a box on the ballot saying "keep the guy's who's already in the white house. I don't like any of the above." ?
America is a liberal country - Love it or leave it.
Point 1: America is 38% conservative and 24% Liberal. (source).
Point 2: "Love it or leave it" is effectively "shut up and sit down". It calls for a suppression of free speech typical of tyrannical, abusive dictatorship. Turkey can say "love it or leave it" with some justification. America cannot.
That criminal witch is untouchable [...]
Insults are the domain of the Democrats, have some couth. Republicans don't generally use insult as a substitute for rational thinking, that's a Democratic play.
We could easily build stories about Hillary being Marie Antoinette ("let them eat cake"), or Lucrecia Borgia (for all Clinton's opponents who have died under mysterious circumstances), or even Lilith ("Mother of demons"). Some of them would even have a rational basis. It would be a counterpoint to Trump being Hilter, Stalin, or Cthulhu.
But we don't, because we believe the head rules the heart. We have smart people here at Slashdot, we don't have to descend to common name calling.
"Heart rules the head", IOW emotional thinking, is what Democrats do.
We don't *need* to spout lies or insults.
Don't descend to their level.
(And if you're a Democrat reading this and are angered: take the challenge. Post a reason why Hillary would be better than Trump as president, without outright lying, insulting, or wishful fantasy. In other words, cite their stated positions instead of "he'll do *this*" or "she'll do *that*. I don't think anyone can, but if anyone can, they'd be here on Slashdot.)
Well, Trump did ask Russia to hack her emails, so maybe they said, "Fine, we will."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Nail the bitch to the wall
2) If you are mad enough to consider voting for Trump does the fact that the Russian's are trying to help him put you off. If it does who do you vote for?
That's an interesting point.
I think the Russians did the country an enormous favour by bringing the actions of the Democratic party to light. It's like Snowden outing all the illegal activity of the intelligence organizations.
I'd be completely OK if they, or some other country, did the same thing to the Republicans. It would only shine a light on the corruption, and help bring us to a more fair political process.
And we also have to consider recent events. Our own Federal Election Commission won't investigate massive money laundering that effectively neutralized Sanders campaign funds, or working directly against the Sanders campaign.
Also, the GCHQ was hacking around the Arab Spring, and the US deposed the democratically elected leader of Iran and put the Shah in power.
We can't blame Russia for doing what every other country is doing, and that we are doing as well.
The Democrats would have every right to be upset except that they were involved in massive wrongdoing!
You're our only hope
Why didn't Trump just ask his campaign manager (Manafort) to relay the message to the Kremlin?
Perhaps the servers would have been safer at her house?
-Styopa
Who knows how far they'll go to fix this one up?
I wonder if they found those missing emails?
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I didn't previously respond to your post because I want to encourage you and posters like you. Don't get discouraged when other people jump on what you wrote.
You raise a valid point, and it should be discussed. I'd like to see you get an account and repost this, and any other rational points you want to make, so that we can discuss these issues.
Clinton will come up again as a topic, let's take this up at that time.
For now, I unreservedly admit that your post is good and you've completed the challenge.
Breathless, uninformative, and obviously so from the headline. Efficiency!
The idea is that if Hillary/Clinton/DNC/Inc. email gets hacked enough, no one will be able to find evidence of the H"Hillary Clinton Email Controversy" on the internet any more.
The law is not an ass. No really.
Most transparent campaign ever.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I call B.S. Hillary herself has assured us, under oath, that her email has not been hacked. And since the server absolutely had no sensitive information on it there would be no reason for Russia or any other foreign government to hack it. Yup, lots of B.S.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
With embarrassing info coming out NOW she wants to know who hacked her. Before she just blew it off. Now it's deflection mode.
By Trump jokingly asking that the hackers find the missing 30k emails, the media NOW thinks those emails could hold national security info where they didn't think before.
president of a 3300 member hackr group here....GO TRUMP ...down with dumbocrats......
and don't worry trump there is a lot more on hilary to come and it aint from russia you need to ask
your an idiot
go look up what an elite proxy server is and why we use them OUTSIDE northamerica to do things here
The FBI mole team. To top it off, Hillary passed away over a month ago. Big trouble brewing I think.
The concept of National Security is the biggest lie if them all.