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FBI Probes Hacking of Democratic Congressional Group (reuters.com) 159

From a Reuters report: The FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another U.S. Democratic Party group, which may be related to an earlier hack against the Democratic National Committee , four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The previously unreported incident at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, and its potential ties to Russian hackers are likely to heighten accusations, so far unproven, that Moscow is trying to meddle in the U.S. presidential election campaign to help Republican nominee Donald Trump. The Kremlin denied involvement in the DCCC cyber-attack. Hacking of the party's emails caused discord among Democrats at the party's convention in Philadelphia to nominate Hillary Clinton as its presidential candidate. The newly disclosed breach at the DCCC may have been intended to gather information about donors, rather than to steal money, the sources said on Thursday.
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  • I don't think Vlad P is _that_ invested in having Trump win. If he is, Trump's ties to him go deeper than mere admiration.

    More likely is that someone else has hired the hackers. Those super PACs need to spend their money somewhere.

    But I'd say the most likely scenario is that the Republicans have been hacked too, but their security is so crap they haven't even realized it.

    • There's a 100% chance that everyone has been hacked; the question is only what you define as hacked (downloaded malware on their network? CHECK!) and scope of damage.

    • Maybe the Republicans were hacked but it just shows bias against the DT, so no one would care.

      No, Just kidding! There d'ain't need to be anything to care about in the leaks to publish them.

    • by Nidi62 ( 1525137 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:30AM (#52606043)

      I don't think Vlad P is _that_ invested in having Trump win. If he is, Trump's ties to him go deeper than mere admiration.

      Anything that hurts the US and weakens America's influence in the world helps Russia. Putin probably sees 2 likely outcomes with Trump winning: Trump does exactly what he has campaigned on and the US becomes protectionist, isolationist, and it's economy stagnates; leaving a large power vacuum that Russia could neatly slide into; or Trump wins, becomes a Putin/Erdogan-lite president and spends most of his time consolidating power, fighting off a hostile Congress, and trying to rebrand the White House as the Trump White House (or maybe just the Trump House?), leaving Putin alone to continue his Eastern European anschluss and growing influence in the Middle East. Either way, a Trump win is a Putin win.

      • by meta-monkey ( 321000 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @10:32AM (#52606445) Journal

        But what Trump has actually said about Syria and ISIS is that 1. toppling Assad was a bad idea because he was keeping the jihadis in check and 2. thinks a no-fly zone over Syria is dumb because ISIS doesn't have planes and there's no reason to antagonize Russia as they drop their million dollar a pop bombs on ISIS.

        Putin's no good guy but he's on the right side of the fight against Islamic jihad. I would think he'd want Trump in power because Trump will join with Putin against ISIS, unlike Hillary, who destabilized Syria in the first place by arming the moderate beheaders and seems far more concerned with toppling Assad than beating ISIS.

        • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

          by Anonymous Coward

          Putin's no good guy but he's on the right side of the fight against Islamic jihad. I would think he'd want Trump in power because Trump will join with Putin against ISIS, unlike Hillary, who destabilized Syria in the first place by arming the moderate beheaders and seems far more concerned with toppling Assad than beating ISIS.

          You are missing the point. Yes, ISIS is bad. Needs to have its ass kicked. But they are not a superpower, and they will never become one. The real conflict - the one for trillions o

          • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

            Geopolitically speaking, this election isn't about Trump vs. Hillary. It's about whether you want US foreign policy to be directed by Americans (however crooked one of them might be) or by the Russians (however strong they might make their voters feel). Given that choice, I'd suggest voting for the crook: it's important.

            You're exactly right. But, I'm frankly tired of the proxy wars and the droning of brown people in sand for the control of oil and gas and, of course, pipelines [curry.com]. Not to mention the regime-change agenda over there that started during the W. Bush administration [youtube.com].

            So I don't want Hillary in charge to further that agenda and escalate things over there. The only good it does for anybody is to line the pockets of multinational corporations (and, of course, the politicians that help them gain access to resource t

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      • by Anonymous Coward

        Putin's has pretty clear and limited criteria for involvement in neighboring countries. While I think it is valid to be critical of Putin consolidating Russian control, power and influence over majority Russian parts of the former Soviet Union, the propaganda in the West that somehow Putin is on the march and is a threat to his non-Russian neighbors is false. Putin clearly has no interests in territories where a majority of non-Russians live.

        Putin isn't the Soviet Union trying to take over the world for s

  • by sethstorm ( 512897 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:25AM (#52605989) Homepage

    They won't prosecute if it's Her Highness, but they'll be happy to prosecute if there's an unsubstantiated allegation that besmirches Her Highness.

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  • by Anonymous Coward

    Many people are aware of their public image. Such people will, for example, refuse to endorse a candidate because they know that their endorsement comes with more baggage than benefits.

    Vladimir Putin is not a great fool, he knows what the American populace thinks of him. His most likely motive is a desire to make sure that whoever wins this election, a significant population believes that it only got that way because of illegal foreign campaign contributions and/or espionage by a moderately hostile (not s

  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:26AM (#52606001)

    The emails were leaked by deliberate negligence. Just like a certain person who wasn't charged for exposing certain files on a private home server.

    Once the noise went down the person in charge got a job working for the person who benefits the most from the leaked emails.

    And yet it's "Russia" influencing the election.

  • by argStyopa ( 232550 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:29AM (#52606027) Journal

    ...as long as they didn't KNOW that anything they took was secret, no prosecutable crime was committed?

    After all, "... no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case..."

    • The Chewbacca Defense in the annals of brilliant legal maneuvers.

    • After all, "... no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case..."

      "... no [loyal] [Democrat] prosecutor would bring such a case ..."

  • We are offshoring almost everything else. Why deny the Russians work in the electoral process?
  • LOL Russia (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:40AM (#52606093)

    So far as I know, the only people saying it was Russia are DNC officials, the same people that couldn't manage to secure a mail server and the same people that have an extreme interest in making sure their underhanded subverting of Bernie Sanders' campaign wasn't the story. But they're experts at network forensics, apparently, after only 4 days of work... Meanwhile it took months for the FBI & CIA to say they think the Sony hack was done by North Korea. Maybe the FBI and CIA should start hiring Hilary's cronies to do their hacking investigations for them.

  • Enough already (Score:2, Insightful)

    It's almost hysterical, this loonbait conspiracy crap. Why should Putin favor Trump, when Trump clearly favors the US over all other countries? (as a President for any particular country *should* be putting the interests of his own countrymen first). Putin would more likely actually prefer a POTUS that is going to be weaker on foreign policy, if anything; just about everyone wants to knock the US down a peg or three.
    It's just FUD and hypocritical fearmongering from the DNC; instead of getting their pant
    • 1. I don't think Trump had anything to do with this.

      2. This whole "it's teh ruskies!!!11!!" fear mongering is a retarded distraction.

      3. I think it's obvious if Putin's thinking ahead to who would be better for him in office, it's Trump. Trump would join with Putin against ISIS, as opposed to Hillary who would bomb Assad and establish a no-fly zone over Syria which would bring the US into conflict with Russia.

    • by Anonymous Coward

      I'll tell you why Putin favors Trump.
      Trump praises Putin as a "strong leader". Trump also said Saddam Hussein was a "good guy" and did "good things".
      Trump supports nuclear proliferation, specifically saying Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia should be given nuclear weapons "for defense".
      Trump said he may abandon our NATO allies if Russia were to attack them.
      Trump said he supports Russia's invasion and anexation of Crimea and the lifting of sanctions on Russia for doing it.
      Trump said he wants the US to aba

      • Almost nothing you said is factual, and is a series of half-truths or outright lies. Bravo.

  • Trump is just a blowhard who doesn't think before he speaks. It is pretty clear in context that he was not actually calling for any hacks.

    "Why do I have to get involved with [Vladimir] Putin? I have nothing to do with Putin. I’ve never spoken to him. I don’t know anything about him other than he will respect me. He doesn’t respect our president. And if it is Russia [behind the WikiLeaks release of stolen Democratic National Committee emails]—which it’s probably not, nobody know

  • by OzPeter ( 195038 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:48AM (#52606149)

    So the Dems have been hacked, apparently multiple times and these hacks have been widely publicized. To me that raise the question of why aren't we hearing anything about hacks on the GOP side?

    Is it because the GOP has security that is orders of magnitude better than the DNC?
    Is it because the GOP doesn't have any juicy secrets?
    Is it because the GOP has been hacked, but no-one is admitting to anything?
    Is it because all the hackers are pro-GOP?

    • Is it because all the hackers are pro-GOP?

      It could also be that the hackers are anti-DNC. The Clintons have far, far more global political enemies than Trump does.

    • They have been asked about this and the RNC has released some info that they follow industry and government security policies and have people with the job of making sure the servers are protected and procedures are followed unlike the DNC.
      On some of the security boards you are even seeing people slamming trump and the rnc for releasing that amount of information and how carless they are. Others have taken it as a challenge.
  • by burtosis ( 1124179 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @10:08AM (#52606307)
    It originated from a dilapatated Coney Island arcade with a busted up sign and an illegal connection to the power grid.
    • It originated from a dilapatated Coney Island arcade with a busted up sign and an illegal connection to the power grid.

      Yes!! ...but where do they get their internet?

  • by davide marney ( 231845 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @10:15AM (#52606349) Journal

    As soon as I saw that real consequences started happening because of the DNC hack, my first thought was, "Hmm, well, some consumer-grade Exchange box sitting on the end of a Comcast connection running without an SSL certificate for two months would be a piece of cake compared to the DNC's infrastructure. Somebody's for sure got those deleted emails." Heck, even Comey himself testified that the FBI was able to reconstitute thousands of work-related emails. Maybe we don't need the Russkies or the script kiddies to give us the emails, our own FBI could fork them over.

    Regardless, yeah, I'd like to see those emails. I think 30,000 emails about yoga would be interesting.

  • Changing the subject to Russia constantly has been a big help recently. It changes the subject from what we all should be paying attention to, the content of these mails. Instead our attention is diverted away to the man juggling, while the thief picks our pockets clean. This was no ordinary hack, the freaking chairwoman of the DNC has already resigned over it and more resignations will be coming in the days to come. The Democratic Party is not what everyone thought it was

    They ridiculed an African-Ameri

    • by meta-monkey ( 321000 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:17AM (#52606693) Journal

      My favorite part is the money laundering scheme, though, where big donors would cut a big check split to each state party allegedly to help down-ballot candidates, but was then instantly wired right back to the national party and then used for pro-HRC ("#ImWIthHer") ads and HRC fundraising. This dodges the FEC donation limit requirements.

  • My compendium (Score:2, Insightful)

    by rickb928 ( 945187 )

    0 - Trump's comment was pure sarcasm, and all those who didn't get it at the moment also don't get Trump, and won;t get why he will win.

    1 - Any questions on why you don't get Trump I will not answer. You won't get the answer either.

    2 - Every state is attacking every other state's data, and at every level. Some are more successful than others. If you don't think an individual, moderately technology-capable, state is doing this, then they are entirely successful in hiding their efforts, and their success a

    • No, you interpret what he said as sarcasm. But with Trump, it's virtually impossible without applying a filter, either in his favor, or biased against him, to sort out much of what he means. To have a man who wants to be the leader of the Free World speaking in a rantish and often incoherent fashion, and then constantly being informed by his followers as to what he really meant doesn't inspire confidence.

      • 'To have a man who wants to be the leader of the Free World speaking in a rantish and often incoherent fashion, and then constantly being informed by his followers as to what he really meant doesn't inspire confidence'

        Thinking that Trump needs to be told what he said is incoherence. His 'rantish and often incoherent' speech is often plain talk, which we are unaccustomed to from politicians.

        But keep underestimating Trump. That will work out well. Trust me.

  • corrupt (Score:3, Insightful)

    by blackomegax ( 807080 ) on Friday July 29, 2016 @12:41PM (#52607149) Journal
    They keep investigating the HACKS. Not the corruption and crime the hacks expose. THE FBI IS CORRUPT AS FUCK.

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