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Democratic National Committee Says Hackers Unsuccessfully Targeted Voter Database (cnn.com)
The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN. From a report: The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party's database, the source said. The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details. The source said the DNC is investigating who may have been responsible for the attempted attack, but that it has no reason to believe its voter file was accessed or altered.
Back in 2015 and 2016 the DNC poo-poo'd FBI and other agencies that tried to alert them that they were the targets of concerted hacking efforts.
Ken
Well, since you brought the president up, his August 5 tweet pretty much admits the purpose of the Trump Tower meeting of June 9 2016 was to solicit campaign aid from a foreign intelligence service -- to coin a phrase, to "collude" with the Russians. The claim now is that it was perfectly legal to do that (experts disagree).
The story about that meeting has changed so frequently I don't blame you if you missed that particular entry.
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The hacking of the DNC really ought to be a bigger scandal than it was, and if our media was doing it's job of investigative journalism it would be.
Why? The DNC is a private organization, hacking the DNC did little more than embarrass people that claimed one thing but did another.
There's strong evidence that the Russians got ahold of voter rolls and send them on to the Republican party and/or the Trump campaign.
Do you know how dumb that sounds? The "voter rolls" are freely available to anyone that is willing to pay the local registrar of voters the reproduction fee, there's no need to set up an elaborate cyber attack to "steal' another party's private copy of public information.
There was a sudden shift in the Trump campaign's ad buys and campaigning where it became highly effective for no discernible reason, and it was right around when the hack happened....
Right, the only way the Trump campaign could gain traction is by working with the Russians, stealing the DNC's "private" copy of the voter rolls, and effectively used them to target swing voters. What a dastardly plan!
One question - why didn't the Democrats use their own information to target their ads more effectively and win the election?
Ken