U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Hendricks Dewayne <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: October 7, 2016 at 4:40:03 PM EDT
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> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections
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> U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections
> By Ellen Nakashima
> Oct 7 2016
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-government-officially-accuses-russia-of-hacking-campaign-to-influence-elections/2016/10/07/4e0b9654-8cbf-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html>
>
> The Obama administration on Friday officially accused Russia of attempting to interfere in the 2016 elections, 
> including by hacking the computers of the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations.
>
> The denunciation, made by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland 
> Security, came as pressure was growing from within the administration and some lawmakers to hold Moscow accountable 
> for a set of actions apparently aimed at sowing discord around the election.
>
> “The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails 
> from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations,” said a joint statement from the two 
> agencies. “These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process.”
>
> The DNC publicly disclosed the intrusions in June, saying its investigation determined that Russian government 
> hackers were behind the breach. That was followed shortly after by a major leak of DNC emails, some so embarrassing 
> that they forced the resignation of the DNC chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), on the eve of the 
> Democratic National Convention.
>
> The administration also blamed Moscow for the hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the 
> subsequent leak of private email addresses and cellphone numbers of Democratic lawmakers.
>
> The Post's Ellen Nakashima goes over the events, and discusses the two hacker groups responsible. (Jhaan Elker/The 
> Washington Post)
>
> A series of other leaks of hacked material followed. 
>
> The digitally purloined material has appeared on websites such as DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks. It has included the 
> private emails of former secretary of state Colin Powell and aides to former secretary of state and Democratic 
> presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
>
> An online persona calling himself Guccifer 2.0 has claimed responsibility for posting the material. Those sites and 
> that persona are “consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts,” the statement said. “We 
> believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have 
> authorized these activities.”
>
> Russian President Vladi­mir Putin has denied any connection to the hacks. “I know absolutely nothing about it,” he 
> said in an interview last month with Bloomberg News. “Russia has never done anything like this at the state level.”
> Moreover, he said, “I could never even imagine that such information would be of interest to the American public.”
>
> [snip]
>
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