DNC officials have confirmed to The Washington Post that Russian hackers breached the Democrat National Committee's database and stole opposition research on Donald Trump. In addition, the hackers were able to read email and chats on the system.
Some of the hackers had been in the DNC system for a year, the paper said. They were finally expelled this past weekend.
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the party moved to fix the problem as quickly as it could and contacted a security company called CrowdStrike last month.
Wasserman Schultz told MSNBC that “from everything we call tell” the Trump files were the target.
CrowdStrike found that two Russian intelligence agencies broke into the DNC network in the summer of 2015 and April 2016.
The Russians also tried to gain entry to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Trump’s campaign and various political committees.
Clinton told Telemundo she only learned of the breach when it was made public Tuesday.
"The Russian government uses cyber-attacks to gain information for economic commercial advantage, for political advantage, and for military advantage, and this seems like another example where they’re trying to vacuum up information,” Clinton said.
The Russians denied any involvement. “I completely rule out a possibility that the [Russian] government or the government bodies have been involved in this,” Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told Reuters in Moscow.
