The FBI suspects foreign hackers have attempted to break into phones belonging to members of the Democratic Party, among them unnamed elected officials, Rooters quoted government sources as saying Tuesday.
The cyberattacks took place in the past month, and Sherlocks suspect that like August’s hack of party servers, Russian hackers may be behind the incident.
It wasn’t clear from the report whether the hacks were successful or not.
| Given the Clinton group's historic disinterest in security of any sort beyond protection from annoyance by those who disagree with them, the odds are high the hacker succeeded. |
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told fellow Democrats she was the target of "an electronic Watergate break-in" targeting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democratic Party entities. As a result, a mix of personal and official information of Democratic members and hundreds of congressional staff, purportedly from a hack of the DCCC, was posted online, she said.
A hacker who calls himself Guccifer 2.0 took credit for posting the information. He had grabbed credit for the recent hack of Democratic National Committee emails, which roiled the Democratic National Convention last month. While Guccifer 2.0 has described himself as a Romanian hacker and denies working for Russia, online Sherlocks assert that he is linked to Russia.