Thanks Trump!
These digital attacks are a crime and they should be treated as such!
The previously unreported incident at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, and its potential ties to Russian hackers are likely to heighten accusations, so far unproven, that Moscow is trying to meddle in the U.S. presidential election campaign to help Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The “unproven” part won’t be for long.
@gregangelo In a perverse kind of way you win today’s Intertubes Award for posting the ugliest pic of this cretin I’ve ever seen.
No matter what, the stolen documents won’t show any effort to swing congressional campaigns against Bernie.
But the faked ones the Russians insert will – watch out for all those documents that are missing or have anomalous use of articles like “the” and “a”…
I think the real concern is that this attack seems to have been targeting donors personal information.
So my $100 campaign contribution just bought some 16 year old Bulgarian basement nerd a night with a Ukranian hooker and a bottle of vodka. Great.
It’s usually written “Трамп” which is also more appropriate;)
I also suspect this may be an attempt to curb donations to the DNC/Democrats. I mean, I’m sure people would be leary of donating knowing the sites are hackable. Notice no stories about this happening to the RNC…
I assume the financial info is on a different server, under different protocols entirely. But they may get my e-mail address. Ah, well, everyone from Nigerian princes to boner-pill salesmen already have that. (My biggest spammers already are various Democrats.)
To be fair the latter is a hard job.
This is wretched, but to a large extent I believe that these hacks are the result of the opposition to secure encryption that the US government has been pushing for the last 30 years.
Right now, there is no question that anything on the internet can be hacked. Social Engineering hacking works 100% of the time. We have to build solid encryption and unbreakable physical identification, so that nobody can get access to data – they may get access to encrypted files, but not the data within them.
If every file you access, every email you write or receive, requires a handshake with your watch, then these problems can be solved. You should never have non-encrypted data on your computer. Never. Ever. None.
If the gov’t needs to access your files, they can get a warrant and force you to do the decryption. The benefit of having unencrypted data for the gov’t is going to be far outweighed by the rampant hacking everywhere.
In the future, this will clearly be the case – the question is how long is it going to take for this to happen? Let’s start now.
Could be a coincidence, but my credit card number was used fraudulently the day after I contributed to DCCC. I (and maybe many others?) contributed on the last day of the Congressional gun control sit-in.
Fortunately I and a couple of the vendors noticed the fraudulent charges right away and it was resolved with a single phone call.
Maybe, but the Wikileaks stuff from the DNC already included a fair amount of donor personal data so it seems to be an issue for concern, perhaps, as @trumpdog mentioned, to discourage donations.
But only four hours a day. (Or call your doctor.)
Thanks for the Omaha Steaks! They really made the barbeque that weekend. 
Oh? Do they make good charcoal?
Correct. From the wording that has come forth from the intelligence community, it has been proven. They are just dancing around the diplomatic wording of how to say that.
But as they figure out that wording, and more evidence and incidents come to light, this is only going to gather steam.