From DNC Lawsuit:
Russia’s cyberattack on DNC began only wks after Trump announced his candidacy for @POTUS in June of 2015.
Russia’s cyberattack on DNC began only wks after Trump announced his candidacy for @POTUS in June of 2015.
The IC Report concluded: “In July 2015, Russian Intelligence gained access to Democratic National Committee (DNC) networks and maintained that access until at least June 2016”. [Actual date was determined to be “since at least July 27, 2015”]
In April 2016, another set of Russian Intelligence Agents successfully hacked into the DNC. wired.com/story/dnc-laws… On April 18, 2016, Russia launched a second phase of its cyberattack on DNC servers located in Virginia and Washington DC. This attack was executed by GRU agents.
On April 22, 2016, Russian intelligence prepared massive amounts of data for exfiltration from DNC servers.
On April 28, 2016, DNC IT Staff detected and ultimately confirmed access to the DNC network by unauthorized users. Upon discovering the intrusion, the DNC contacted Crowdstrike Services.
By June 2016, Russia had stolen thousands of DNC documents and emails.
On June 15, 2016, GRU Operative #1 (Guccifer 2.0 thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone… ) widely disseminated a trove of stolen documents to the public, claiming they were DNC material. guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/dnc/
On June 15, 2016, GRU Operative #1 (Guccifer 2.0 thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone… ) widely disseminated a trove of stolen documents to the public, claiming they were DNC material. guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/dnc/
On June 21, 2016, GRU Operative #1 (Guccifer 2.0) released a batch of stolen DNC documents about Secretary Clinton.
On June 30, 2016, GRU Operative #1 (Guccifer 2.0) released stolen DNC documents to the public, including research on Republican candidates and Secretary Clinton.
On July 6, 2016, GRU Operative #1 (Guccifer 2.0) released stolen DNC documents, including DNC strategy documents related to the DNC’s “counter-convention” to the RNC convention.
On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks began disseminating stolen DNC documents, including emails and other sensitive proprietary documents, to the public.
On October 7, 2016, WikiLeaks began releasing batches of Podesta’s emails on a near-daily basis until Election Day.
From June 2016 to October 2016, the GRU and GRU Operative #1, through the online persona “Guccifer 2.0” systematically released stolen documents from the DNC on a regular basis.
Both Crowdstrike’s forensic analysis and the U.S. Government concluded that the DNC’s computer systems had been hacked by two independent, sophisticated state-sponsored adversaries.
The forensic analysts tracked the hacking activities of these adversaries by assigning them code names: “Cozy Bear” & “Fancy Bear,” which corresponds to the more widely used names Advanced Persistent Threat 29 (APT 29) & Advanced Persistent Threat 28 (APT 28), respectively.
The IC Report concluded that “Fancy Bear” was acting as an agent of the GRU.
Forensic analysis found evidence that Cozy Bear had infiltrated & remained present in the DNC’s network since at least July 27, 2015.
Forensic analysis found evidence that Cozy Bear had infiltrated & remained present in the DNC’s network since at least July 27, 2015.
The DNC first detected the infiltration of the GRU, or “Fancy Bear”, in its network on April 28, 2016.
