DNC calls FBI after detecting attempt to hack its voter database
Source: CNN
The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN.
The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party's database, the source said.
The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.
The source said the DNC is investigating who may have been responsible for the attempted attack, but that it has no reason to believe its voter file was accessed or altered.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/democratic-national-committee-voter-database/index.html
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,284 posts)Wonder what they are up to?
still_one
(92,394 posts)If the republican party isn't a criminal enterprise, then I don't know what is
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)that is how they got into the dnc last time...
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)+
George II
(67,782 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)and therefore I have zero faith in the US election system any longer. We are a Banana Republic, and vote totals have been and will be continued to be altered in order to favor the tyrant.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Complicit.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)They should make their own fake log-in page and catch the hackers when they try to log into it. They should at least be able to collect their IP addresses if nothing else.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They hired a top cyber security firm a long time ago. Come on, Fake, you wouldn't even have to wonder how they knew they'd been hacked, if you were so inclined. The article explains that.
Btw, how's your computer being put to use by malicious agents these days? If you're like almost everyone else here, you have absolutely no idea.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Gabriel Debenedetti ✔ @gdebenedetti
The day Trump asked Russia to find Clintons emails, hackers launched an assault on her personal system.
The day the Access Hollywood tape surfaced, WikiLeaks started dropping Podestas emails.
The day Manafort and Cohen go down...
Link to tweet
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)protecting their asset in the White House. I used to think it wasn't actually possible, but now I'm starting to believe that Trump could actually be an active asset of the Russian government. The Russian's 'Manchurian Candidate'. They have been grooming him for years I guess. My freaking god.
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)I used to think we had enough controls and patriots in government for it not to happen. Then the rethugs got greedy and will take money from anyone for anything they are paid to do.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Donald Trump?
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Last year he weighed 400 pounds.