FBI Had Alerted Illinois GOP About Possible Email Hack

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Publicated : 22/11/2024   Category : security


FBI Had Alerted Illinois GOP About Possible Email Hack


RNC chief says party was not hacked while Trump dismisses CIA report that Russian hackers tried to influence presidential poll.



The Illinois Republican Party’s executive director has revealed that months before the US Presidential election, FBI warned the party that its emails may have been hacked, and advised the organization to change its passwords, AP reports. The party later discovered 18 of its emails on DCLeaks.com, a site allegedly linked to the Russian military.
Unaware the FBI was conducting a deeper investigation into Russian hacking, the party had then found it weird that the FBI was giving IT advice, said Nick Klitzing, the Illinois GOPs top official.
Klitzing’s statement comes in the wake of the
CIAs conclusion of high confidence
 that Russia was behind the recent hacks surrounding the US Presidential election, with the intention of influencing the outcome in favor of Donald Trump.
Trump has dismissed the CIAs findings and Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus has maintained that the RNC was not hacked.
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