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.

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Re: Article disagreement

[SCPaPaJoe]

Thank god for Mother Russia!

Re:Idiot

[Anonymous Coward]

And this proves that Russia hacked is account. All this proves is that John Podesta is an idiot.

Yes, Podesta and his staffers were idiots. Most nontechnical people on both sides of the aisle are idiots. The exploits at the bit.ly or other spearphish/watering hole attack are the ones that suggest Russian involvement. The fact that both DNC and RNC were hacked, but only the choicest bits of embarassing stuff from the DNC hacks were leaks, strongly suggest Russian involvement with the intent of benefiting Trump in the general.