'Lone hacker' claims responsibility for cyber attack on Democrats

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Technology | Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:13pm EDT

'Lone hacker' claims responsibility for cyber attack on Democrats

A "lone hacker" has taken responsibility for a cyber attack on the U.S. Democratic National Committee, which the DNC and a cyber-security firm have blamed on the Russian government.

The DNC and cyber firm CrowdStrike disclosed the attack on Tuesday, saying that hackers working for Russia broke into the DNC's computer network, spied on internal communications and stole research on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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On Wednesday, an individual using the moniker Guccifer 2.0 took responsibility for the attack in a post on the blogging site WordPress.com, saying the DNC was "hacked by a lone hacker."

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Guccifer 2.0's blog includes images of documents it claims were stolen from DNC servers, including one titled "Donald Trump Report," which was dated Dec. 19, and spreadsheets purportedly containing information about party donors.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-hack-idUSKCN0Z209Q

[djean111]

1. Oh, dang! It is soooo much more effective to deflect really bad security with the big bad Russians.

Weasels.