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Purveyor

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Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:09 PM Aug 2016

Clinton Foundation May Have Been Hacked

WASHINGTON—Bill and Hillary Clinton's charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

So far, no message or document hacked from the New York-based Clinton Foundation has surfaced in public, the sources said.

One of the sources and two U.S. security officials said that like hackers who targeted the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democrats' congressional fundraising committee, the hackers appear to have used "spear phishing" techniques to gain access to the foundation's network.

These techniques include creating bogus emails or websites in an effort to gain access to Clinton Foundation staffers' emails and then to the foundation itself.

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http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4096630-clinton-foundation-may-have-been-hacked

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Clinton Foundation May Have Been Hacked (Original Post) Purveyor Aug 2016 OP
No matter what, Internet security for all democratic computer networks need upgrades yeoman6987 Aug 2016 #1
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October Surprise coming up? Hekate Aug 2016 #3

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