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.

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Seems like a lot of work

[kenh]

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.

As recent history shows, Democratic operatives choose weak passwords ('password') and offer them up readily when asked for them via email from strangers...

I'm looking at you, Jon Podesta, former campaign director of Hillary 2016.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here

[rsilvergun]

and say that if they're brought in the FBI it's something more than just a random hit to their IP address.

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. 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. 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....

One of the reasons I'd really love to see basic income become a thing is that it would pay for people to be investigative journalists. Combine basic income with the internet's cheap ability to distribute information. and we'd have a winning formula for one of the most important aspects of democracy, the free press. As it stands there's little work being done to investigate Trump won outside of the Mueller probe, and given the political situation that may fizzle out whereas independent journalism might hit a Watergate style breakthrough.