Friday, July 29, 2016

Another Democratic Party committee has been hacked

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has suffered a security breach, and the FBI is investigating, writes Reuters. The incident, reported by four anonymous sources and later confirmed by the DCCC, comes shortly after WikiLeaks released a trove of damaging emails from the Democratic National Committee’s servers. The sources told Reuters that like the DNC hack, this new attack could have exposed information about Democratic donors, including credit card and social security information.

It’s not clear precisely how similar this attack is to the DNC hack, or how broad its scope was. Reuters reports that in June, "a bogus website was registered with a name closely resembling that of a main donation site connected to the DCCC."...

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