John Podesta: FBI Didnt Tell Him About Hack Until After Emails Leaked

[DonViejo]

Source: LawNewz

by David Bixenspan | 10:51 am, December 18th, 2016

Sunday morning saw the broadcast of the first post-election interview with John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and it was an eventful one. Speaking with Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Podesta alleged that the FBI did not contact him about the hack of his personal email account until some of the emails had already made their way into the public eye via Wikileaks.

“Let’s go through the chronology. On October 7, the Access Hollywood tapes comes out. One hour later, WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails into the public,” Podesta explained. “One could say that those things might not have been a coincidence. Two days later, the FBI contacted me, and the first thing the agent said to me was, ‘I don’t know if you’re aware but your email account might have been hacked.’ I said, yes, I was aware of that.”

Todd followed up by asking when Podesta knew he had been hacked. “In one of those DNC documents that appeared to me … that might have came from my account,” Podesta said. “So I wasn’t sure. I didn’t know what they had, what they didn’t have. It wasn’t until October 7 when [WikiLeaks founder Julian] Assange … started dumping them out and said they would all dump out, that’s when I knew that they had the contents of my email account. By the way, that was the last time I’d heard from the FBI.”

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[perdita9]

1. The FBI looks either inept or corrupt

Not a good perception for a government organization

[Skittles]

2. COMPLICIT is the word

[jalan48]

3. Is the FBI a stand alone entity or is there someone else above them?

[Quackers]

5. They report to the Department of Justice. nt

[LovingA2andMI]

6. Can Anyone Name...

The Good (or any at all) Loretta Lynch has done to prevent or take actions against a FBI Department under HER authority?

[ananda]

10. Nope.

We don't have a functioning justice department at all.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. She has bigger fish to fry

like corrupt FIFA officials

[JI7]

4. FBI is full of right wing racist sexist assholes

[wishstar]

7. DNC wasn't told in timely matter either

[Kilgore]

8. The OP does not give the whole story, the FBI did try to tell the DNC

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?_r=1

WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.

His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.

Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for “the Dukes” and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn’t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.

The D.N.C.’s fumbling encounter with the F.B.I. meant the best chance to halt the Russian intrusion was lost. The failure to grasp the scope of the attacks undercut efforts to minimize their impact. And the White House’s reluctance to respond forcefully meant the Russians have not paid a heavy price for their actions, a decision that could prove critical in deterring future cyberattacks.

[wishstar]

9. The DNC hack is totally different than the hack into Podesta's emails

Tech support contractor for DNC definitely seems to have mishandled the calls from FBI Special Agent. (But FBI agent should have made a direct personal visit to DNC to make sure his information got taken seriously) But the tech guy should have not just floundered around googling and making guesses as to whether the agent was an imposter. He should have gone into FBI office right next door to DNC to clarify the situation.

But Podesta's personal email hack was a totally different situation from the DNC hack. He was not notified until after Wikileaks had begun the leaks in October and DNC was never notified about Podesta's personal email hacking as it wasn't directly connected to DNC.

[Coyotl]

11. And Podesta wasn't hacked, he was phished. That's about as complicated as a Nigerian scam.

Not exactly Putinesque.

[HoneyBadger]

12. 3/19/16 Fwd: Sоmeоne has your passwоrd

So he did not get this email??????


I chose not to post the Wikileaks link.....

From:[e-mail] To: [e-mail], [e-mail] Date: 2016-03-19 12:07 Subject: Fwd: Sоmeоne has your passwоrd

[csziggy]

14. Podesta was phished and the IT guy screwed up

WikiLeaks email shows how hackers targeted John Podesta

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - Friday, October 28, 2016

<SNIP>

“Someone has your password,” reads the subject line of a message sent to Mr. Podesta’s personal Gmail account on the morning of March 19, 2016.

<SNIP>

The phishing email arrived in Mr. Podesta’s inbox at 4:34 a.m. on March 19 and made its way later that morning to Sara Latham, his chief of staff. Ms. Latham forwarded the purported security warning at 9:29 a.m. to Charles Delavan, a member of Mrs. Clinton’s IT team, who fired back a response less than 30 minutes later.

“This is a legitimate email. John needs to change his password immediately, and ensure that two-factor authentication is turned on his account,” Mr. Delavan wrote, referring to a security practice which requires a user to input secondary, sometimes time-sensitive credentials when signing-on to an account.

While the email most certainly wasn’t legitimate — security researchers have traced the Bitly link it included to a server tied to Russian hackers, not Google —Mr. Delavan passed along the address of the actual site where Gmail users can update their credentials and enable two-factor authentication.

More: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/28/wikileaks-email-shows-how-hackers-targeted-john-po/

And more at: Clinton tech staffer says typo precipitated Podesta email hack

[Calista241]

15. My gmail account has been hacked before, and i was never notified by the FBI.

Is it their job to protect people's free google email accounts?