Exclusive: Emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/04/exclusive-emails-of-top-nrcc-officials-stolen-in-major-2018-hack-1043309

By Alex Isenstadt and John Bresnahan
POLITICO
12/04/2018

The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, 
exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according 
to three senior party officials.

The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican 
Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party 
officials said. The intrusion was detected in April by an NRCC vendor, who 
alerted the committee and its cybersecurity contractor. An internal 
investigation was initiated and the FBI was alerted to the attack, said 
the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the incident.

However, senior House Republicans -- including Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), 
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve 
Scalise (R-La.) -- were not informed of the hack until POLITICO contacted 
the NRCC on Monday with questions about the episode. Rank-and-file House 
Republicans were not told, either.

Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who served as NRCC chairman this past 
election cycle, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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