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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[BlueStrat]

Like this doesn't happen to the RNC or to other parties? EVERYTHING on the net is being hacked and targetted. I'd be more surprised that this DIDN'T happen to any political campaign with a net presence.

That's not even the craziest part.

Why even hack the DNC to obtain their voter database when all they'd need to do is obtain the registries for all the cemeteries/mausoleums, crematoriums, and funeral homes (including recent obituaries in a close race) in a given Democratic district?

It has to have been the work of a foreign state as Americans would know better.

Strat