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-- 2016 --
March 30: How Trump Hacked The Media
Trump’s dominance on cable news isn’t the whole story.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-donald-trump-hacked-the-media/
July 27:
The campaign later attempted to clarify Trump's remarks, saying he wanted Russia to hand over the emails if they had them.
“I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” the Republican nominee said at a news conference in Florida. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282
September 27: Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said maybe Trump is confused about where the hacker's "bed" lies.
"My guess is if this guy weighs 400 pounds he's sitting somewhere in Russia right now," Schiff told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" Tuesday. "I just find this, like his statements about ISIS that played into Russian propaganda, really deplorable."
And cyber experts say the remarks seem unaware of the seriousness of the threat. https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/dnc-cyberattack-400-pound-hackers/index.html
December 12: Contrary To Trump's Tweet, Russian Hacking Came Up Before Election (A Lot)
13 Times Russian Hacking Came Up In The Presidential Campaign ...
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505261053/13-times-russian-hacking-came-up-in-the-presidential-campaign
-- 2017 --
January 11: President-elect Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time here Wednesday that Russia was responsible for hacking the Democratic Party during last year’s election, but he denied that the leaks were intended to boost him and argued that Moscow would cease cyberattacks on the United States once he is sworn in.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-admits-to-russian-hacking-even-as-he-attacks-us-intelligence-community/2017/01/11/40941a34-d817-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f29cb034103e
January 11: Trump says Russians were unable to hack the Republican National Committee
It’s clear that Russian hackers did infiltrate some Republicans and affiliated groups. The website DC Leaks published about 200 emails related to Republican Party business, as well as the emails of former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on CNN that Russian actors compromised his campaign emails.
But the claim that the RNC specifically was not hacked is significant because the organization is the core of the national Republican Party structure.
FBI Director James Comey offered the most definitive statements recently, in a Jan. 10 hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"There was evidence that there was hacking directed at state level organizations, state level campaigns and the RNC, but old domains of the RNC," Comey said. "That is, email domains that they were no longer using, and the information was harvested from there, but it was old stuff. None of that was released. We did not develop any evidence that the Trump campaign or the current RNC was successfully hacked."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/11/donald-trump/trump-says-russians-were-unable-hack-republican-na/
January 19: President-elect Donald Trump has another enemy to worry about.
The mysterious hacker group Anonymous said via Twitter this week that Trump is “going to regret the next 4 years,” a statement that’s likely to spur hackers and Internet pranksters to target his administration. The group issued its threat in response to one of Trump’s tweets in which he criticized departing CIA Director John Brennan and implied that Brennan was a source of a leaked dossier about his alleged activities in Russia.
http://fortune.com/2017/01/18/anonymous-donald-trump-hackers/
March 12: Roger Stone, the flamboyant political adviser who has been connected to President Donald Trump for years, is defending his contacts with "Guccifer 2.0"-- the online persona who claims responsibility for hacking the Democratic National Committee -- as an innocuous "brief exchange" of a few direct messages that he says amount to nothing.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/12/politics/stone-guccifer-2-0-messages/index.html
November 5: Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers possibly operating out of Russia, The Associated Press has learned.
The Trump Organization denied the domain names were ever compromised. But a review of internet records by the AP and cybersecurity experts shows otherwise. And it was not until this past week, after the Trump camp was asked about it by the AP, that the last of the tampered-with addresses were repaired.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tech-hacked-russians-1.4387969
-- 2018 --
January 11: On June 13, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified to the Senate Intelligence committee about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. After fielding hours of questions about his knowledge of the plot, Sessions was greeted by an abrupt change in topic from Senator John McCain. “Quietly, the Kremlin has been trying to map the United States telecommunications infrastructure,” McCain announced, and described a series of alarming moves, including Russian spies monitoring the fiber optic network in Kansas and Russia’s creation of “a cyber weapon that can disrupt the United States power grids and telecommunications infrastructure.”
When McCain asked if Sessions had a strategy to counter Russia’s attacks, Sessions admitted they did not.
In a normal year, McCain’s inquiries about documented, dangerous threats to U.S. infrastructure would have dominated the news. His concerns are well founded: in recent years, Ukraine’s power grid has been repeatedly hacked in what cybersecurity experts believe was part a test run for the United States. Russian hackers have also hacked many centers of U.S. power, including the State Department, the White House, and everyone with a Yahoo email address in 2014, the Department of Defense in 2015, and, of course, the Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee, state and local voter databases, and personal email accounts of various US officials in 2016.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40515682/the-other-scary-foreign-hacking-threat-trump-is-ignoring
March 22: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.
While it’s unclear what Mueller plans to do with Guccifer, his last round of indictments charged 13 Russians tied to the Internet Research Agency troll farm with a conspiracy “for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.” It was Mueller’s first move establishing Russian interference in the election within a criminal context, but it stopped short of directly implicating the Putin regime.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer
July 13: Russians tried to hack Clinton server on day Trump urged email search
Prosecutors say spies began hacking on 27 July 2016 – but indictment does not suggest direct link with Trump’s request
Russian spies began trying to hack Hillary Clinton’s personal email server on the very day Donald Trump urged the Russian government to find emails Clinton had erased, prosecutors said on Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/13/russians-hillary-clinton-email-server-trump-indictment
July 13: Twelve Russians charged with US 2016 election hack
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44825345
July 14: White House: Trump-Putin summit 'is on' after hacking indictment
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44830065
July 16: President Donald Trump just bragged that Vladimir Putin has offered to send Russian government investigators to look into Russian government meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
That is not a joke.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17576788/putin-trump-meeting-election-idea-hacking
July 17: What Mueller Knows About the DNC Hack—And Trump Doesn’t
The president’s bizarre obsession with “the DNC server” defies logic or even a basic understanding of what actually happened.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/17/dnc-server-hack-russia-trump-2016-219017
July 18: Some of the People Trump Has Blamed for Russia’s 2016 Election Hack
A “400 pound” person, someone living in New Jersey, and now “a lot of people out there”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/trump-russia-hack/565445/
July 19: Chinese Hackers Targeted Internet-of-Things in Finland During Trump-Putin Summit
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/07/chinese-hackers-targeted-internet-things-during-trump-putin-summit/149873/
July 24: Trump, Election Hacking, and the Georgia Governor’s Race
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-election-hacking-and-the-georgia-governors-race
July 30: Rudy: Trump Is Innocent Because He Did Not Personally Hack Democratic Emails
Giuliani is maintaining that Trump is innocent unless he either paid for the hacking or carried it out personally. I think we can all agree that Trump lacks the technical expertise to personally design and execute a spearfishing attack on John Podesta or the Democratic National Committee. He had no need to pay for the hacking, because Russia was only too happy to do it for him, and share the proceeds. If Trump solicited the hacking, or was an accessory to the crime, his lawyer is prepared to paint him as innocent.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/rudy-trump-innocent-because-he-didnt-personally-hack-email.html?gtm=top>m=bottom
August 6: Hackers Pledge to Take Down Pro-Trump Conspiracy
https://www.newsweek.com/anonymous-hacking-collective-threatens-qanon-conspiracy-theorists-1058062
August 20: Microsoft Thwarts Russia Hackers Targeting GOP Critics of Trump
Microsoft Corp. has detected and seized web domains created by cyber-attackers linked to the Russian military, in a potential attempt to manipulate and disrupt the U.S. midterm elections.
The shadowy group, known as Strontium, created domains that mimicked organizations such as the International Republican Institute and Hudson Institute so intended victims would believe they were receiving legitimate emails or visiting real sites, Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a blog post. Microsoft said it’s sifting through evidence of the group’s intentions after getting a court order to take over those domains, effectively disrupting the hacking campaign.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-21/microsoft-finds-new-russian-effort-to-hack-u-s-political-groups
August 21: Russian hackers reportedly target anti-Trump Republicans
https://nypost.com/2018/08/21/russian-hackers-reportedly-target-anti-trump-republicans/
August 22: Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis suggests his client has knowledge implicating Trump in ‘criminal conspiracy’ to hack Democratic emails
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/22/cohen-lawyer-lanny-davis-suggests-his-client-has-knowledge-implicating-trump-in-criminal-conspiracy-to-hack-democratic-emails/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eb1846989568
August 29: Sixteen hours after President Trump tweeted about a right-wing media story alleging that China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server, an FBI official is refuting the report in a comment to NBC News.
"The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised," the official said.
It’s the latest example of the widening breach between a president who traffics in unverified news accounts and the law enforcement agencies he frequently maligns.
The FBI official, speaking for the bureau, also pointed to a report issued in June by the Justice Department inspector general that examined the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server.
In the report, the IG noted that while the FBI assessed that it was "possible" that hostile actors gained access to Clinton’s private email server, the bureau "acknowledged that the FBI investigation and its forensic analysis did not find evidence that Clinton’s email server systems were compromised."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fbi-rebuts-trump-tweet-about-china-hacking-clinton-s-email-n904811
September 12: Guilty: U.S. Convicts Kremlin-linked Russian hacker
New reporting reveals former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort is seeking a plea deal in the Mueller probe, but negotiations have stalled, because the Special Counsel wants information pertaining to Trump and the 2016 campaign. BuzzFeed News also reports a barrage of suspicious money transfers occurred 11 days after the 2016 Trump Tower meeting and a major Russian hacker, who has claimed links to the Kremlin, was convicted by U.S. Prosecutors, after being extradited from Spain.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/guilty-u-s-convicts-kremlin-linked-russian-hacker-1319127107629
September 14: Throughout the confusion of Donald Trump's campaign and the chaotic events of his early days in the White House, one controversy has clung to the Trump team like glue: Russia.
US intelligence agencies have concluded Moscow tried to sway the presidential election in favour of Mr Trump.
It is alleged that Russian hackers stole information linked to the campaign of his rival Hillary Clinton and passed it to Wikileaks so it could be released to undermine her.
Congressional committees were set up to investigate the matter and, in March, then-FBI director James Comey confirmed the bureau had its own inquiry.
President Trump sacked Mr Comey on 9 May, citing his reason as "this Russia thing", in a move that shocked Washington and fuelled claims of a cover-up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38966846
September 17: Is Trump right? Could a 400-pound couch potato have hacked the DNC?
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/dnc-cyberattack-400-pound-hackers/index.html
October 2: GOP operative who sued Trump says FBI referred hacking of her email to Mueller
Cheri Jacobus says she was subjected to a campaign of online harassment and sabotage after a public fight with the president and one of his top advisers.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/02/mueller-investigation-emails-hack-857288
October 10: The Trump Campaign Says Exploiting Hacked Emails Is Free Speech
Lawyers for the campaign asserted in court papers a right to disclose “even stolen information.”
In a motion to dismiss a new lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump’s campaign team of illegally conspiring with Russian agents to disseminate stolen emails during the election, Trump campaign lawyers have tried out a new defense: free speech.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/trump-campaign-defends-wikileaks-use-hacked-dnc-emails/572587/
October 11: Hillary Clinton offered one of her most direct rebukes of President Trump in months on Thursday after Trump accused her of colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential election at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania Wednesday night.
... Trump told an arena of supporters that there was "collusion between Hillary, the Democrats and Russia" during the 2016 election, despite offering no evidence for his claim. An intelligence community assessment in 2017 concluded that Russia's efforts were aimed at undermining the Clinton campaign.
"There was a lot of collusion with them and Russia and lots of other people," Trump added during the rally.
"Seriously, you asked Russia to hack me on national television," Clinton responded in a tweet Thursday afternoon.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/411049-clinton-fires-back-at-trump-you-asked-russia-to-hack-me-on
October 12: Hackers accessed personal information of 30 million Facebook users
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/tech/facebook-hack-personal-information-accessed/index.html
October 15: Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?
A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign
October 16: It's bad enough young supporters of President Donald Trump say their political views make dating a challenge. Now, a new app designed just for them was hacked the day it launched, exposing the personal data of more than 1,600 users.
"Trump supporters face extreme hostility wherever they go, whether they're at a restaurant or on an online dating app," said Emily Moreno, CEO of Donald Daters and a former aide to Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-dating-app-hacked-hours-after-launch-/4616367.html
December 4: President Donald Trump’s talking point blaming Democrats for cyberattacks against them during the 2016 presidential election suddenly became awkward after Politico broke news on Tuesday that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has also been victimized by a major hack believed to be the work of a foreign entity.
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/4/18125764/nrcc-hack-trump-talking-point
December 4: Roger Stone cites fifth amendment and says he won't give documents to Senate – as it happened
Roger Stone’s attorney sent letter saying longtime Trump adviser will not provide documents or testimony to judiciary committee
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/dec/04/trump-live-latest-news-michael-flynn-mueller-russia-investigation-us-politics-today
December 4: Though sporadic hacker intrusions and phishing campaigns targeted political entities in the lead-up to November's midterm elections, things seemed pretty quiet overall on the election-meddling front in the US. Certainly no leaks or theatrics rose to the level of Russia's actions during the 2016 presidential election. But a belatedly revealed breach of the National Republican Congressional Committee shows just how bad the attack on the 2018 election really was.
https://www.wired.com/story/nrcc-email-hack-midterm-election-meddling/
December 5: Russian Hacking and Influence in the U.S. Election
Complete coverage of Russia’s campaign to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking
-- 2019 --
January 4: Hackers Leak Details of German Lawmakers, Except Those on Far Right
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/world/europe/germany-hacking-politicians-leak.html
-- 2020 --
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