Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton
The hacker Guccifer 2.0 leaked online personal data of nearly two hundred representatives of the US Democratic party. Previously, he assumed responsibility for one of the attacks on the Democrats’
The hacker posted a free access to Internet e-mail addresses and mobile phone numbers of nearly 200 representatives of the US Democratic Party, which are current and former members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, . according to The Wall Street Journal
this is a hacker Guccifer 2.0, which said that the current leak – it’s part of breaking the US Democratic party Committee for the elections to the Congress (DCCC), which was previously reported and in which, according to the media, was found Russian trace
One of the defendants published data -. Democrat Steny Hoyer – told the publication that he was unaware of the incident. “Actually, the first time I heard about this” – he said,
The White House declined to comment on the WSJ happened
As the newspaper notes, phone numbers and email addresses can be useful for members.. foreign intelligence services that use this information may try to intercept conversations. In particular, the published data on the members of the Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Armed Services, Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives, the newspaper notes.
«This is important information, and it can be used very adversely foreign government” -. said Hoyer
a number of sources in the US intelligence, “believe that the culprit breaking the DCCC, as well as burglary of the Democratic National Committee, are hackers who are supported by the Russian government,” writes the WSJ. According to the newspaper, at least one company that specializes in cyber security, said that between Guccifer 2.0 and Russia have a connection, even though the attacker has denied its existence.
Hoyer in conversation with the newspaper pointed out that the White House, Congress US intelligence agencies need to consider the use of “response measures” in response to the hacking. “I think a lot of people are going to change the phone number in the near future”, – he said
Recently, there were reports of three cyber attacks on Democrats network.. The first was made to the National Committee and testified about the conspiracy of the Democratic Party in order to prevent the election campaign in the US ex-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in favor of the promotion of State Hillary Clinton. Responsibility for it took the Guccifer 2.0, which was called a lone hacker.
The second was made at the DCCC. And the third – to the campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate of the Democratic Party
At the end of July, Clinton said that the computers of the National Democratic Party committee broke the Russian special services.. The Kremlin in response stressed that Clinton “does not contain anything specific” and performed in the genre of the pre-election rhetoric.
Earlier, WSJ, citing sources wrote that US officials are considering imposing sanctions against Russia in response to the hacking of the Democratic Network party, however, has not yet been decided. As the newspaper notes, the introduction of sanctions would require the White House formally charged or Russian hackers, it supports batch of hacking networks and subsequent leaks.
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