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- Major investigation of how the Russians hacked the Clinton campaign reveals just two emails led to the hack
- One was opened by an unnamed 2016 staffer whose 2008 campaign email address had been reactivated - they fell for phishing email
- That may have revealed her contacts because shortly afterwards they emailed the gmails of top aides including John Podesta the campaign chair
- Unclear why Podesta was using Gmail instead of the campaign's ultra-secure internal email system but his boss had same approach at State Department
- He got a phishing email which was clicked on TWICE putting his messages in hands of the Kremlin hackers
- Close links to Wikileaks are revealed and also how hackers who set up DCLeaks and those who attacked Podesta is disclosed
Here are their findings. Hillary Clinton has made the hacking of the emails one of them. 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.
Within nine days, some of the campaign's most consequential secrets would be in the hackers' hands, part of a massive operation aimed at vacuuming up millions of messages from thousands of inboxes across the world. An Associated Press investigation into the digital break-ins that disrupted the U.S. presidential contest has sketched out an anatomy of the hack that led to months of damaging disclosures about the Democratic Party's nominee. It wasn't just a few aides that the hackers went after; it was an all-out blitz across the Democratic Party. They tried to compromise Clinton's inner circle and more than 130 party employees, supporters and contractors. While U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia was behind the email thefts, the AP drew on forensic data to report Thursday that the hackers known as Fancy Bear were closely aligned with the interests of the Russian government.
The AP's reconstruction- based on a database of 19,000 malicious links recently shared by cybersecurity firm Secureworks - shows how the hackers worked their way around the Clinton campaign's top-of-the-line digital security to steal chairman John Podesta's emails in March 2016. It also helps explain how a Russian-linked intermediary could boast to a Trump policy adviser, a month later, that the Kremlin had 'thousands of emails' worth of dirt on Clinton.
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