Russia-gate Began Like Watergate -- With A Break-In That Few Noticed

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March 4, 2017 3:00 am

Tim Johnson
McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — If there were a starting point for the political turmoil around members of Donald Trump's inner circle and their ties to Russia, it likely would be last June 15.

On that day, news broke of a computer penetration. It seemed like a minor event and was barely noted in newscasts, not unlike the famous political break-in 44 years earlier at the Watergate complex that became synonymous with political scandal.

A cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike, posted a blog item saying it had detected a series of intrusions into the network of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. The culprits, it said, were Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, nicknames of two highly skilled hacking units linked to the Russian security services.

CrowdStrike said one of the units had been lurking on the DNC network for at least 10 months, and that both units had used sophisticated Remote Access Tools — fittingly called RATs — to maraud for documents and emails.

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