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A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com)
tomhath quotes a report from The Hill: Last March, Podesta received an email purportedly from Google saying hackers had tried to infiltrate his Gmail account. When an aide emailed the campaign's IT staff to ask if the notice was real, Clinton campaign aide Charles Delavan replied that it was "a legitimate email" and that Podesta should "change his password immediately." Instead of telling the aide that the email was a threat and that a good response would be to change his password directly through Google's website, he had inadvertently told the aide to click on the fraudulent email and give the attackers access to the account. Delavan told The New York Times he had intended to type "illegitimate," a typo he still has not forgiven himself for making. The email was a phishing scam that ultimately revealed Podesta's password to hackers. Soon after, WikiLeaks began releasing 10 years of his emails.
That sounds like a really sophisticated Russian hacking effort! I'm glad the CIA is on it!
Yup. This is just CYA bullshit designed to make them look less incompetent. We're all made typos, right?
It coudl happent o anyone!
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We're all made typos, right?
Don't you mean "we've"?
Apparently, there were thousands of typos in the emails themselves. All those racial slurs. All those admissions of collusion with the press and super PACS. All those derogatory things the Clinton campaign was saying about Obama. All the campaign's dirty tricks. All the gaffes in Hillary's paid speeches....They were just all TYPOS!
Apparently he wasn't tipped off by the start of the email
Comrade Podesta,
Filthy imperialist pigs have hacked into you email. To change your password please click http://www.ussrlives.com/mail/
Russian to English translation is not easy. Please give dispensation.
All this proves is that John Podesta is an idiot.
The fact that he's a democrat proves he's an idiot.