National Republican Congressional Committee says it was hacked during this year's election cycle
Source: The Washington Post
By Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris December 4 at 1:02 PM
The campaign organization for House Republicans was the victim of a cyberattack that exposed email accounts to an unknown intruder during the 2018 election cycle, people familiar with the matter said.
It wasnt known if a foreign government was behind the intrusion into the computer networks of the National Republican Congressional Committee, a person familiar with the case said. But the intruder was sophisticated, based on their tactics and methods, and the intrusion was clearly designed to hide the tracks of who it was, this person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the matter is under investigation.
The intrusion was first reported by Politico, which said senior House Republicans, including Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), as well as rank-and-file members werent told of the breach until the news organization inquired about the episode with the committee on Monday.
The NRCC can confirm that it was the victim of a cyber intrusion by an unknown entity, said Ian Prior, a committee spokesman.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/national-republican-congressional-committee-says-it-was-hacked-during-this-years-election-cycle/2018/12/04/58136c7a-f7e9-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html?utm_term=.d4dddd9f1365
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)efhmc
(14,731 posts)nt
Hassler
(3,384 posts)underpants
(182,865 posts)I can sooo see this being spun as an excuse for the Blue Wave in RW media.
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)marble falls
(57,150 posts)irisblue
(33,018 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)In the voice of the creepy man acquitted in Texas dismemberment murder trial. What's his name? I have selectively erased him.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)shithole will blame the Democratic Party . . . .
genxlib
(5,529 posts)If you put anything embarrassing or incriminating into an email these days, you are an idiot.
Considering what has taken place over the last few years, you would have to be a world class dumbass to do it within a political organization.
brooklynite
(94,686 posts)Russia isn't "pro-Trump", it's "pro-chaos". Anything that disrupts the US Government is to their advantage.
Chakaconcarne
(2,460 posts)pecosbob
(7,542 posts)I mean look, guys, we don't even know how to send emails..it must have been liberals. /s
ancianita
(36,130 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)onetexan
(13,056 posts)by playing the victim. Sorry Repugs, we've seen this tactic before.
Botany
(70,558 posts)I am not buying this for a second. BTW did't the GOP in the senate or the house block
spending money on cyber security before our elections in 2018 on orders from the White House?
yonder
(9,669 posts)The GOP-controlled Senate filibustered an industry infrastructure protection bill in 2012 as well. "Too burdensome for corporations"
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/us/politics/cybersecurity-bill-blocked-by-gop-filibuster.html
Go figure
Botany
(70,558 posts).... for our voting systems in 2018 (August I think) at the behest of
the White House.
From your Wall Street Journal link.
WASHINGTONSenate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic effort to increase spending on
election security measures, saying they wanted to see what states do with grants they have already
been provided.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)I mean, if you were in Russian intelligence, wouldn't you want to know what your assets were saying privately?