Current Events > So... The Russian hacker narrative may be fake after all.

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Why was I mentioned 5 times in this shit ass topic
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Russia Russia Russia
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Straight from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-hacking-fast-facts/

June 14, 2016 - The Washington Post reports hackers working for the Russian government accessed the Democratic National Committee's computer system, stealing oppositional research on Donald Trump and viewing staffers' emails and chat exchanges. The Kremlin, however, denies that the government was linked to the hack, and a US official tells CNN that investigators have not yet concluded that the cyberattack was directed by the Russian government.

June 15, 2016 - A cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC posts a public notice on its website describing an attack on the political committee's computer network by two groups associated with Russian intelligence.

CrowdStrike's notice:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/

We deployed our IR team and technology and immediately identified two sophisticated adversaries on the network – COZY BEAR and FANCY BEAR. We’ve had lots of experience with both of these actors attempting to target our customers in the past and know them well... In particular, we identified advanced methods consistent with nation-state level capabilities including deliberate targeting and ‘access management’ tradecraft

So, a company hired by the DNC says that they think (not that they confirmed) the hackers were Russian because their methods resemble those hackers they were familiar with. Even the U.S. Intelligence Community's joint statement never confirmed that it was Russians, just that they believed it was Russia because it was consistent with methods they've used in the past:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-department-homeland-security-and-office-director-national

The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process. Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.

Not a good look for you

Kineth posted...

jfc this neckbeard topic needs to be trimmed by Occam's Razor.

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This wouldn't even have been the first time that the DNC had their data taken by an insider. It happened in December 2015 too:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15792

On Wednesday morning, NGP VAN applied a new software patch to the DNC’s voter database system, and because of an error in the code, users were capable of accessing some limited, yet extremely valuable information belonging to other campaigns for a very brief window of time. Even though the glitch opened access, users still needed to take deliberate steps to seek out such information.

Once NGP VAN had taken steps to contain the glitch, the DNC directed NGP VAN to conduct a thorough analysis to:

- Identify any users who may have accessed information from another campaign inappropriately,
- Pinpoint exactly what actions any such users took in the system, and
- Report these findings to the DNC so we would know what, if any, data was actually acquired.

As a result of this analysis, NGP VAN found that campaign staff on the Sanders campaign, including the campaign’s national data director, had accessed proprietary information about which voters were being targeted by the Clinton campaign — and in doing so violated their agreements with the DNC.

These staffers then saved this information in their personal folders on the system, and over the course of the next day, we learned that at least one staffer appeared to have generated reports and exported them from the system.

None of this is in dispute. It’s fully documented in the system logs.

Color me shocked.
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