The History of Terrorism
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1848-Today Democratic National Committee (DNC)
2016 "By in or around April 2016, the Conspirators also hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ("DCCC") and the Democratic National Committee ("DNC").
2016 How Donald Trump stole the 2016 election
2016 United States Presidential Election
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"This is my personal project and I'm proud of it," he-or they-wrote in late June. But several sloppy mistakes soon revealed who was really behind the operation. The unraveling happened more quickly than anybody could have anticipated.
2016 "By in or around April 2016, the Conspirators began to plan the release of materials stolen from the Clinton Campaign, DCCC, and DNC."
2016 In December 2016, VIPS released a memorandum criticizing allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections as "evidence-free".
2016 It was a flash drive not a hack that stole the info from the DNC.
2016 Meanwhile, the kompromat campaign proceeded apace. August and September each saw six data dumps, including files from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which had also been hacked.
2016 On the day WikiLeaks published the first batch of Podesta's emails, the U. S. government took the unprecedented step of announcing that it was "confident" Russia's "seniormost officials" had authorized the DNC hacks.
2016 The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election (book)
2016-? DNC Hack investigation
2016-Today Russian Hacking AKA DNC Hacking AKA Russiagate AKA Neo-McCarthyism AKA New Cold War
2018 On June 14, less than an hour after The Washington Post reported the breach at the DNC, CrowdStrike posted a report that detailed the methods used by the intruders.
2018 Rosenstein CONFESSES DNC Server Wasn't Hacked - Claims Emails Stolen Through BIZZARE Scam
2018 WaPost - Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump
2019 Obstruction of Justice: How the Deep State Risked National Security to Protect the Democrats (book)
2019 The Hill - State Dept. ramps up probe into Clinton email server: report
2020 The Hill - Rohrabacher tells Yahoo he discussed pardon with Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email
2024 Forbes - Who Is Midnight Blizzard? Russian-Linked Group Has Repeatedly Targeted Microsoft, Company Says
2024 Red Shadow Over the White House (documentary)
Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer (weev)
As proof, Guccifer published eleven documents from the DNC, including an opposition-research file on Donald Trump and a list of major Democratic donors.
But in many ways, the DNC hack was merely a prelude to what many security researchers see as a still more audacious feat: the hacking of America's most secretive intelligence agency, the NSA.
CrowdStrike immediately discovered two sophisticated groups of spies that were stealing documents from the Democrats by the thousands.
For the first time, Russia used a hacking operation, one that collected and released massive quantities of stolen information, to meddle in an American presidential election.
I knew Dmitri Alperovich, the same man in charge of investigating the DNC "hack", was the man who ported the PGP encryption software to the Blackberry. I knew the metadata footprints to look for.
In the weeks that followed, Guccifer offered interviews and batches of documents to several journalists, but he wrote that "the main part of the papers, thousands of files and mails, I gave to WikiLeaks."
Jane O'Meara Sanders
Professexor (hacker)
The hackers, hiding behind ominous aliases like Guccifer 2.0 and DC Leaks, claimed their first victim in July, in the person of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chair, whose private emails were published by WikiLeaks in the days leading up to the Democrat
The operators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, dismissed CrowdStrike's attribution, insisting instead that the DNC had been "hacked by a lone hacker."
What changed over the past year, however-what made the DNC hack feel new and terrifying-was Russia's seeming determination to combine the two.
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2016 Democratic Congressional Committee Hack (DCCC Hack)
2016 Democratic National Committee email leak