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House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign (talkingpointsmemo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the breaking-news dept.

The National Republican Congressional Committee was hacked this election cycle, it admitted Tuesday afternoon. From a report: "The NRCC can confirm that it was the victim of a cyber intrusion by an unknown entity. The cybersecurity of the Committee's data is paramount, and upon learning of the intrusion, the NRCC immediately launched an internal investigation and notified the FBI, which is now investigating the matter," NRCC spokesman Ian Prior said in a statement.

"To protect the integrity of that investigation, the NRCC will offer no further comment on the incident." The major breach included thousands of emails from four senior aides, according to Politico, which first reported the hacks. An outside vendor noticed and alerted the committee in April. The committee then launched an internal investigation and alerted the FBI.

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  1. This is a distraction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a distraction from the breaking story about possible GOP election fraud scandal coming to light in North Carolina.

    The allegation is that someone on the GOP payroll was hiring people to go door to door and collect absentee ballots. This is illegal under NC law.

    Additionally, those ballots passed through unknown hands, and may have been culled, substituted or otherwise altered in the process.

    https://thehill.com/blogs/blog...

    https://www.mediamatters.org/b...

    https://www.motherjones.com/po...

    https://www.politifact.com/nor...

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

    1. Re:This is a distraction by rahvin112 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Not only was there a ballot collection drive in contravention of NC law, but all the statistics for the two counties in question are off against the rest of the state. More absentee ballots were requested, more were not submitted, and a higher number voted for one party than the rest of the state.

      I'm sure all those voters concerned about voter fraud support immediately suspending certification of the ballot, recounting ballots, and performing a full verification of all ballots in the affected counties including prosecution of all the people accused of collecting ballots and paying people to collect ballots.

      It should be noted that the GOP is opposed to any of those steps.

  2. This is a cover story meant to distract by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    from a much bigger story going on right now. Compared to what's going on with our foreign policy (and the ramifications that has for an Administration that continues to ignore intelligence in favor of money) this isn't even small potatoes...

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  3. Re:I'm Canadian and even I know the Republicans ar by Zontar_Thing_From_Ve · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The evil ones. Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.

    Even worse, because of this I'm now expecting Trump any day to put forth the theory that this somehow means that the Democrats did not actually win the House in the recent election and the Republican victory was stolen. I live in a red state and if he does this, yes, lots of people here will believe it.

  4. Re: And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you out of your mind, the President just sent the military to protect Texas from 5,000 job and safety seeking terrorists. How is that the ability to survive on its own.