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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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