Hackers Targeted Trump Campaign and Republican Party Groups

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

@Reuters: JUST IN: Hackers targeted Trump campaign and Republican Party groups - sources. https://t.co/i28KIzvqyR/s/NDbv https://t.co/sHT1QoycfR/s/i9_D

Thu Aug 18, 2016 | 6:49 PM EDT
Hackers targeted Trump campaign, Republican Party groups: sources

By Joseph Menn, Mark Hosenball and John Walcott
(Reuters) - Hackers targeted the computer systems of presidential candidate Donald Trump and Republican Party organizations as well as Democratic Party networks, sources familiar with investigations into the attacks said.

At least one Trump staff member’s email account was infected with malware in 2015 and sent malicious emails to colleagues, according to one insider for the Republican candidate's campaign and an outside security expert. It was unclear whether or not the hackers actually gained access to campaign computers.

In the past month, U.S. security officials have said that starting last year, hackers infiltrated computers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and her party's congressional fundraising committee.

U.S. officials said they have concluded that Russia or its proxies were responsible, leading to calls by some Democrats and cyber security officials for the Obama administration to blame Russia publicly. Kremlin officials have dismissed the allegations as absurd, but there is anxiety in Washington over the possibility that a foreign power might be using hacked information to meddle in the Nov. 8 U.S. election.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10T2HY

[geek tragedy]

1. good, long time coming nt

[moonscape]

2. Or they're trying to distract from still being only after dems ... such a cynic am I :)

[Andy823]

5. I wonder the same thing

This could be BS coming from the republicans to try and take the heat of all the insane things Trump says and does. Only problem is it won't work. Trump is a walking nightmare and once he goes off script he becomes toxic to himself, and the republicans that support him.

[winstars]

3. Bunch of BS. I know 3 people in the last 2 years that got hacked, they changed email accounts

and that was it...

They are conflating some "common" phishing with what happened at the DNC. They probaly asked everyone who has anything to do with the tRump's if they ever were hacked...

Two really different things IMHO.

Typical 'pug lies to gain advantage or negate something.

Scumbags, always...

Thats if it even happened...

[itsrobert]

4. Malware? Sounds like they were surfing the porn sites

hmmmm

[Atticus]

6. Sorry. I call Bullshit.

ONE staff member's email contracted a virus. NO EVIDENCE the "Trump campaign" was hacked or targeted.

Totally false equivalence.

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. I don't believe anything anyone one of these media/news types say - they suck....

When they expose the ALTRIGHT infiltration in our Democracy then I will listen - Rachel made sense of the last year and the crap being spewed the other night...

- all along it has been, and is, ALTRIGHT, trump has been in the sewer with....white men - no college voter block, I prefer white men, no balls voter block - lazy, bigots, thieves, greedy - slovenly, lawless POS's....

Nate Silver has also put an analysis on this crap -

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-doubling-down-on-a-losing-strategy/?ex_cid=2016-forecast

I suppose this is the wrong thread..and now tweety has that blonde loser on...that is what I am talking about...they suck!!