And foreign cyberspies, both parties can agree, are one special interest group that has no place in American democracy. On June 14, 2016, two days after Assange’s disclosure, the DNC went public, saying their servers had been hacked. federal agencies, for all their cybersecurity disasters, at least have massive national resources backing them. It turns out that the president of CrowdStrike couldnt figure out who had hacked the DNC server. And so that was part of this two-year, never-ending pack of lies about this story. While opposition research information represents a juicy digital target, more troubling still would be the possibility for foreign governments' intelligence agencies to influence domestic electoral politics by choosing a side and disrupting the other's campaign strategy. They didnt publicly say it, the DNC said this, that the people they had hired, CrowdStrike, demonstrated that their servers were hacked by Russia. In fact, the threat of hackers attacking campaign organizations could extend well beyond November. "Attacks against electoral candidates and the parties they represent are likely to continue up until the election in November." "The 2016 presidential election has the world’s attention, and leaders of other states are anxiously watching and planning for possible outcomes," Crowdstrike's Alperovitch writes. Our team moved as quickly as possible to kick out the intruders and secure our network.”Ĭrowdstrike's Alperovitch echoes the warning that the DNC breach may not be the last hack of the 2016 election season. “When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately. “The security of our system is critical to our operation and to the confidence of the campaigns and state parties we work with,” congresswoman and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrote in a press statement.
The intruders, according to Crowdstrike and the DNC officials who spoke to the Washington Post, fully accessed the campaign organization's emails and chats, and stole opposition research on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. On Tuesday, security firm Crowdstrike revealed that not one but two groups of hackers believed to be based in Russia had done just that. Today's spies and saboteurs can breach the DNC's computer network far more quietly. Four decades ago, breaking into the files of the Democratic National Committee meant burglarizing the headquarters at the Watergate hotel.
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