US Intelligence Officials: Our Warnings To Europe About Russian Hacking Were Too Late
US Intelligence Officials: Our Warnings To Europe About Russian Hacking Were Too Late
“By the time we made the call, Russian hackers had already breached their system too,” a US intelligence official tells BuzzFeed News.
Sheera Frenkel BuzzFeed News Reporter posted on Dec. 9, 2016, at 7:35 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO — US intelligence officials issued repeated warnings to allies in Europe to watch for attacks by Russian state-backed hackers, but in many cases the warnings were too little, too late, acknowledged three US intelligence officials who spoke to BuzzFeed News this week.
“In many cases we were calling them after the fact; by the time the intelligence assessment was made in the US and the decision made to warn allies facing the same threat in Europe, it was already too late,” said one intelligence official, who regularly takes part in meetings with European allies. He agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, as he wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. “By the time we made the call, Russian hackers had already breached their system too.”
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