With the election just around the corner, it seems the scandals will never cease. The latest cloud to darken the campaign trail involves thousands of leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails. Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook suggested on Monday that Russians are responsible for the hack and subsequent email dump.
This latest scandal deals a blow to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, after she herself came under fire last year for handling classified documents on her own private email server. But news of a DNC breach isn’t actually new. In fact, threat intelligence agency CrowdStrike has been investigating the breach on behalf of the DNC since April. The latest email dump occurred, however, occurred conveniently only days before the commencement of the Democratic National Convention. But back in June, a hacker named Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the breach and denied any involvement with Russia, shedding some doubt on the Clinton campaign’s claim that Russian hackers are behind it.
Critics of Clinton and the Democratic Party will certainly enjoy the small fervor surrounding the DNC data breach this week; others will question the likely motives of Russian or any other hackers in leaking these specific emails at this specific time. Democrats are surely hurting right now, but it is worth noting that the Republicans may not be doing much better when it comes to security: journalist Brian Krebs recently pointed out on his blog, Krebs on Security, that the DNC, RNC, and Donald Trump’s campaign website all fail disastrously at implementing measures to prevent email spoofing. For the full article click here
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