On October 7, when the notorious "Access Hollywood" videotape came out showing Trump speaking lewdly about women, a half-hour later WikiLeaks started publishing Podesta emails on its website, watering down the video's impact.Ĭlinton's advantage over Trump steadily crumbled. Over the final three months of the campaign, until days before the vote, WikiLeaks and Guccifer regularly released hacked materials. On July 27 he declared: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."Īccording to the indictment, that same day the Russian hackers made their first attempts to spearfish private email accounts on Clinton's personal email server. Ominously, too, the Russians appeared to listen to Trump. Trump began taking advantage: "Leaked e-mails of DNC show plans to destroy Bernie Sanders. That forced the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. They were damaging, showing the party leadership had, rather than stay neutral, worked to help Clinton defeat rival Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries. The leaks went mostly quiet for weeks until, three days before the Democratic convention in late July, WikiLeaks dropped 20,000 DNC emails on its website. Friday's indictment said Guccifer 2.0 and another DNC document leaker, "DCLeaks", were personas created by the indicted GRU agents. They received the documents from the mysterious "Guccifer 2.0," a hacker who claimed to be Romanian. The Gawker and Smoking Gun websites published the DNC's internal report on Trump, who had just captured the Republican nomination. On June 14, The Washington Post reported that "Russian government hackers" had penetrated the DNC, and one day later, the leaks began. It was only in early June 2016 that campaign officials understood the gravity of the hack, but it was too late. The first hackers, according to US intelligence, were tied to the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB.Īs they exploited their access, in March 2016 hackers from the military intelligence agency, the GRU, broke into computers of the DNC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, using phishing techniques against staffer emails - including the account of campaign chairman John Podesta - and inserting malware to keep the access open.Īnd they began sweeping up gigabytes worth of materials. The indictment brought back one of the most consequential episodes of the 2016 election. On Friday Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for the hacks, which US intelligence says were part of a concerted effort to hurt Clinton's campaign and boost Trump.
The leak helped turn her sure-thing campaign into a struggle that she ultimately lost to Republican Donald Trump on November 8, 2016. Nine months later, the result became clear: hackers began leaking out personal emails, opposition research, and other documents, a number of them embarrassing, that were swept up from Democrat Hillary Clinton's White House fight. The agent was passed on to the help desk, where his message died. In September 2015 an FBI cybersecurity agent called up the Democratic National Committee, just gearing up for the coming presidential election, to report that Russia-linked hackers had penetrated their network.
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