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Russian Hackers Stole Files on Donald Trump
Hackers reportedly linked to the Russian government managed to steal research files on Donald Trump from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It turned out that they had been lurking in the systems since at least summer 2015, i.e. well before Donald Trump sealed the Republican nomination.
These research files are usually used by political parties for attack ads and leaking story ideas to journalists. As for spy agencies, they normally maintain dossiers on world leaders to better understand their thinking and habits.
The cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC to investigate the breach said that it found two different hacking groups hunting the Trump files. Those who got in last summer might be linked to Russian federal security service, while another team is probably linked to Russian military intelligence. The firm spent a few days removing the hackers from the party’s computers.
In such cases, cybersecurity companies act as both IT help and private intelligence service – while they are hired to clean up the mess and get the system working again, the firms also try to figure out who was behind the hack. This particular firm employs people who have worked for or close to the US government and has a particular specialty in tracking hacking teams for foreign governments. It turned out that some of the hackers found inside the DNC’s computers have previously been linked to espionage campaigns against Nato and Germany’s Bundestag.
It must be said that foreign cyberspies often target US political campaigns: for example, China was accused of hacking Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s presidential campaigns in 2008. In the meantime, US spies also regularly target national party systems in other countries.
In this particular case, it is unclear whether the DNC would have too much of an issue with people stealing Trump files. Political parties ostensibly collect and maintain opposition research to spread negative stories. The cybersecurity company said there was no evidence of any other data being stolen from the party.
It is also unclear what Donald Trump will make of the breach. It is known that in the past he has boasted that President of Russia has called him “bright and talented.” In response, Trump praised Putin as a “strong leader.”
Donald Trump Claimed DNC Masterminded Hack of His Files
Donald Trump claimed that his political adversaries, not Russian hackers, were responsible for hacking his dossier containing important information from files belonging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
A cybersecurity firm hired to investigate the hack of the DNC server attributed it to Russian intelligence. The hack gave outsiders access to internal emails, chat messages and a 200-page book of opposition research compiled on Donald Trump. Gawker and the Smoking Gun published the files received from an anonymous source claiming to be linked to the hack. Trump claimed that much of the information in the dossier was false or entirely inaccurate. He believes that the DNC simulated the “hacking” in order to distract from their flawed candidate and failed party leader.
In the meantime, cybersecurity experts and former US officials believe it was possible that hackers linked to the Russian government would spread intelligence to American press as part of an “information warfare” campaign. The cybersecurity company investigating the breach was first to suggest that the hackers inside the DNC’s computer system were linked to the Russian military intelligence or the Federal Security Service.
The breach came in a midst of Donald Trump’s worst weeks of the political campaign. At the moment, republican lawmakers in the capital continue to back away from their party’s nominee. Some refuse to even mention his name. According to recent polling, Trump viewed unfavorably by 70% of voters, losing to presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton by a double digit margin in a general election matchup.
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