RUSSIAN HACKERS BREACHED THE DNC, POSSIBLY TO STEAL DATA ON TRUMP

The Democratic National Committee is still reeling from a cyber-attack at the hands of Russian hackers, who breached its network and stole data it had on Donald Trump.

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the culprits were able to burrow into the DNC’s network and reads its email and chat histories. It is believed that the DNC was just one of many U.S. political organizations targeted by the hackers. The Russian embassy has denied any knowledge of the attacks. Hackers allegedly gained access to the DNC network last year, but were purged from the system in just the last few days. The Democrats had hired breach mitigation firm CrowdStrike to investigate and clean up its networks. No financial or personal data was stolen in the breach, according to officials, and it believes the hack was an intelligence-gathering exercise.

“It’s the job of every foreign intelligence service to collect intelligence against their adversaries,” CrowdStrike president Shawn Henry said. 

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