2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRussian hackers stole Dems' Trump files, firm says
Tue June 14, 2016
Washington (CNN) Hackers connected to the Russian government broke into the servers of the Democratic National Committee and stole opposition research on Donald Trump, the cybersecurity experts responding to the intrusion said Tuesday.
Two separate Russian intelligence-linked cyberattack groups were both in the DNC's networks, Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, which responded to the breach, told CNN. They likely didn't even know the other was in the systems, he added. CrowdStrike was enlisted by the DNC early last month after the DNC suspected something was amiss in its servers. The hackers were kicked out over the weekend, Alperovitch said, and CrowdStrike is monitoring for any efforts by them to hack back in.
"The security of our system is critical to our operation and to the confidence of the campaigns and state parties we work with," DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. "When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately. Our team moved as quickly as possible to kick out the intruders and secure our network."
"I have high-level confidence that this is Russian intelligence," Alperovitch said, citing a vast body of research his company has on the unique indicators of various cyberattack groups around the world. CrowdStrike specializes in groups known as "advanced persistent threats," or high-level, often government-linked, hacking entities.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/14/politics/democratic-national-committee-breach-russians-donald-trump/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Can't get much more incompetent than this. I mean, what if something like this happened with information as sensitive as National secret squirrel stuff?
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Those fears immediately.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)relationship? Isn't his current wife from Russia?, did trump manage beauty contests there? Seems really odd the one hack was so specific in target.