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WASHINGTON — Computer systems used by Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign were hacked in an attack that appears to have
come from Russia’s intelligence services, a federal law enforcement
official said on Friday.
The apparent breach, coming after the disclosure last month that the Democratic National Committee’s
computer system had been compromised, escalates an international
episode in which Clinton campaign officials have suggested that Russia
might be trying to sway the outcome of the election.
Mrs.
Clinton’s campaign said in a statement that intruders had gained access
to an analytics program used by the campaign and maintained by the
national committee, but it said that it did not believe that the
campaign’s own internal computer systems had been compromised.
The
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the fund-raising arm for
House Democrats, also said on Friday that its systems had been hacked.
Together, the databases of the national committee and the House
organization contain some of the party’s most sensitive communications
and voter and financial data.
Meredith
Kelly, a spokeswoman for the congressional committee, said that after
it discovered the breach, “we immediately took action and engaged with
CrowdStrike, a leading forensic investigator, to assist us in addressing
this incident.”
The
attack on the congressional committee’s system appears to have come
from an entity known as “Fancy Bear,” which is connected to the G.R.U.,
the Russian military intelligence service, according to an official
involved in the forensic investigation.
The
same arm of Russia’s intelligence operation was also implicated in the
attack on the national committee, in which it gained access to
opposition research on Republicans, including the party’s presidential
nominee, Donald J. Trump.
“It’s the same adversary,” the official involved in the forensic investigation said. “These are sophisticated actors.”
The
F.B.I. said on Friday that it was examining reports of “cyberintrusions
involving multiple political entities” but did not identify the targets
of the attacks.
The Clinton campaign used the program that was hacked to analyze voter data, but it did not contain voters’ Social Security
numbers or credit card information, a campaign aide said. The campaign
said it was confident, based on a review by outside experts, that
getting into the program would not have allowed the hackers to gain
access to the campaign’s internal emails, voice mail messages or other
data.
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Following the Trail of Stolen Emails From Russia to WikiLeaks
American officials have “high confidence” that Russia
was behind the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
The
reports of attacks against Democratic Party organizations began in
mid-June, when the Democratic National Committee said its computer
systems had been breached by two groups of Russian hackers working for
competing government intelligence agencies. After that breach, WikiLeaks
last week released some 20,000 committee emails, many of them
embarrassing to Democratic officials, which led Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, a Florida congresswoman, to resign as the group’s leader.
WikiLeaks’
founder, Julian Assange, has made it clear that he hopes to harm Mrs.
Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency, opposing her candidacy on
both policy and personal grounds. He has said that he has more material
about the presidential campaign that he could release, which has raised
the specter of more embarrassing disclosures just as Democrats try to
capitalize on the momentum coming out of their convention this week.
American intelligence agencies have told the White House they have “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee. But it is unclear whether the break-in was fairly routine espionage or part of an effort to manipulate the election.
The attacks on the Clinton campaign and the Democratic congressional committee were first reported by Reuters.
It
is unclear whether the reported breaches at the national committee, the
Clinton campaign and the congressional committee were part of a single
coordinated attack or a series of attacks aimed at the Democrats, said
the law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
In
a statement, the F.B.I. said that it “is aware of media reporting on
cyberintrusions involving multiple political entities, and is working to
determine the accuracy, nature and scope of these matters.”
Nick
Merrill, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said in a statement that
“an analytics data program maintained by the D.N.C., and used by our
campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed as part of the
D.N.C. hack.”
“Our
campaign computer system has been under review by outside cybersecurity
experts,” he added. “To date, they have found no evidence that our
internal systems have been compromised.”
The
hacks have added another unexpected wrinkle to the presidential
campaign, with Mr. Trump asking Russia this week to “find” some 30,000
deleted emails from Mrs. Clinton’s days as secretary of state. (That
statement, made well after the cyberattacks on the Democratic
organizations, was called borderline treasonous by some Democrats, and
Mr. Trump later said that he was being sarcastic.)
Clinton
campaign officials have suggested that President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia could be trying to tilt the election to Mr. Trump, who has
expressed admiration for the Russian leader. But the campaign officials
acknowledge that they have no evidence. The Trump campaign has dismissed
the accusations about Russia as a deliberate distraction.
The
C.I.A. director, John O. Brennan, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum,
declined to comment on the specific allegations but said that
“obviously, interference in the U.S. election process is a very, very
serious matter, and I think certainly this government would treat it
with great seriousness.”
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