Forbes: Russian Hackers Targeted Hillary Clinton Campaign Google Accounts
Jun 16, 2016 @ 11:59 AM 3,793 views
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Russian Hackers Targeted Hillary Clinton Campaign Google Accounts
Thomas Fox-Brewster ,
Forbes Staff
I cover crime, privacy and security in digital and physical forms.
Hillary Clinton’s private email server has attracted the attention of foreign hackers and American regulators alike. But now her campaign crew’s Google email has been targeted by hackers thought to be working for the Russian government, security experts told FORBES today.
In the last three months, the same group that allegedly breached the Democratic National Committee in April has been trying to take control of Gmail accounts of staff working for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to researchers from security firm SecureWorks. Targets included those running Clinton’s communications and organizing her travel, which FORBES believes includes Kristina Schake and Nick Merrill, as well as the director of speechwriting Dan Schwerin. Policy advisers and campaign finance managers were also on the Russians’ list.
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It’s not yet clear whether the hackers managed to actually break into the Clinton group’s Google accounts, though SecureWorks said the links had been clicked, possibly indicating successful attacks. The firm’s researchers saw the APT28 group spin up 213 short links targeting 108 email addresses on the hillaryclinton.com domain. As Bitly reveals which short links were opened, the researchers quickly determined 20 of those 213 had been clicked. And those Bitly link creations were associated with email addresses used by the APT28 hackers.
Clinton’s communications have been barraged with cyberattacks in recent months. Earlier this year, Clinton’s personal email accounts, found to have been used without the right permissions for official business, were also allegedly targeted by hackers in separate attacks. A Romanian going by the name of Guccifer claimed to have compromised the private Clinton server. In May, he pled guilty to numerous hacking crimes, though there was no official word on whether he broke into the server, itself the focus of an FBI probe.
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OMG, can it really be true? Russian hackers are trying to hack GMail accounts?
What does this article reveal? That Russian hackers have been trying to hack into the Clinton campaign's Google and GMail accounts. Do you really think this is news or even interesting? Are we supposed to be afraid that the campaign may have been hacked? What is the point of the article?
It’s not yet clear whether the hackers managed to actually break into the Clinton group’s Google accounts...
And if they were hacked, what would that possibly mean? That the Clinton campaign uses computers?
Blackmail is a crutch used by writers when they can't think of anything better to do. In the real world, I doubt it's so easy. Most people -in my opinion only- would probably say, "Shit, go ahead and publish, you're not getting a dime from me!"
