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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton during her first presidential run, the messages bounced back untouched.
Except one.
The rogue messages that first flew across the internet March 10 were dressed up to look like they came from Google, the company that provided the Clinton campaign’s email infrastructure. The messages urged users to boost their security or change their passwords while in fact steering them toward decoy websites designed to collect their credentials.
But one email made its way to the account of another staffer who’d worked for Clinton in 2008 and joined again in 2016, the AP found. It’s possible the hackers broke in and stole her contacts; the data shows the phishing links sent to her were clicked several times.
Within hours of a second volley emailed March 11, the hackers hit pay dirt. All of a sudden, they were sending links aimed at senior Clinton officials’ nonpublic 2016 addresses, including those belonging to longtime Clinton aide Robert Russo and campaign chairman John Podesta.
Two-factor authentication may have slowed the hackers, but it didn’t 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.
Podesta’s messages — at least 50,000 of them — were in the hackers’ hands.
Though the heart of the campaign was now compromised, the hacking efforts continued. Three new volleys of malicious messages were generated on the 22nd, 23rd and 25th of March, targeting communications director Jennifer Palmieri and Clinton confidante Huma Abedin, among others.
By March, Mr. Tamene and his team had met at least twice in person with the F.B.I. and concluded that Agent Hawkins was really a federal employee. But then the situation took a dire turn.
A second team of Russian-affiliated hackers began to target the D.N.C. and other players in the political world, particularly Democrats. Billy Rinehart, a former D.N.C. regional field director who was then working for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, got an odd email warning from Google.
“Someone just used your password to try to sign into your Google account,” the March 22 email said, adding that the sign-in attempt had occurred in Ukraine. “Google stopped this sign-in attempt. You should change your password immediately.”
Mr. Rinehart was in Hawaii at the time. He remembers checking his email at 4 a.m. for messages from East Coast associates. Without thinking much about the notification, he clicked on the “change password” button and half asleep, as best he can remember, he typed in a new password.
Usually quite convincing but usually not true
According to the AP sources, it wasn't until 4pm on June 10th that DNC staffers were made aware. At that point, everyone was called into the main conference room and staffers were commanded to immediately turn over their laptops.
As we know, it was a mere two days later on June 12th that Julian Assange hinted in an ITV interview that Wikileaks had a pending publication of emails that would be detrimental to Clinton.
A couple days later, CrowdStrike announced the hack and the story broke in the Washington Post.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
Completely new here is that the AP has obtained transaction records from a Romainian ISP, THC Servers
originally posted by: butcherguy
I wish the Russians had released the 30,000 Hillary emails.
Since they didn't, I have yo wonder uf they weren't on her side.
so let me ask, if they did hack the dems, what or how did it affect the elections? or what was revealed which turned the tide on the election?
you should make an equally detailed post about the workings and dealings of the Democrats via what WikiLeaks and other outlets revealed via the 'hacks'.
would you rather, knowing what you know now of $Hillary and her goons and mysterious deaths and inconclusive 'investigations' with absolutely 0 unequivocal answers, would you still rather have Hillary at the helm?
what are you trying to prove or disprove or defend or discredit here, the 'message' or the 'medium' of delivery of the message