Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats emails
Source: AP
While U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia was behind the email thefts, the AP drew on forensic data to report Thursday that the hackers known as Fancy Bear were closely aligned with the interests of the Russian government.
The APs reconstruction based on a database of 19,000 malicious links recently shared by cybersecurity firm Secureworks shows how the hackers worked their way around the Clinton campaigns top-of-the-line digital security to steal chairman John Podestas emails in March 2016.
It also helps explain how a Russian-linked intermediary could boast to a Trump policy adviser, a month later, that the Kremlin had thousands of emails worth of dirt on Clinton.
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But there were signs of dishonesty from the start. The first document Guccifer 2.0 published on June 15 came not from the DNC as advertised but from Podestas inbox , according to a former DNC official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
The official said the word CONFIDENTIAL was not in the original document .
Guccifer 2.0 had airbrushed it to catch reporters attention.
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Botany
(70,567 posts)emulatorloo
(44,175 posts)FakeNoose
(32,726 posts)Nobody noticed this over a year ago? Wow! This isn't good at all.
CousinIT
(9,256 posts)Work emails were protected by two-factor authentication, a technique that uses a second passcode to keep accounts secure. Most messages were deleted after 30 days and staff went through phishing drills. Security awareness even followed the campaigners into the bathroom, where someone put a picture of a toothbrush under the words: You shouldnt share your passwords either.
Two-factor authentication may have slowed the hackers, but it didnt stop them. After repeated attempts to break into various staffers hillaryclinton.com accounts, the hackers turned to the personal Gmail addresses. It was there on March 19 that they targeted top Clinton lieutenants including campaign manager Robby Mook, senior adviser Jake Sullivan and political fixer Philippe Reines.
A malicious link was generated for Podesta at 11:28 a.m. Moscow time, the AP found. Documents subsequently published by WikiLeaks show that the rogue email arrived in his inbox six minutes later. The link was clicked twice.
Podestas messages at least 50,000 of them were in the hackers hands.
paleotn
(17,946 posts)there isn't a system invented by the mind of humans that isn't hackable. There's no such thing in the digital world as perfectly safe. That's the world we live in.