“This left the FBI no choice but to rely upon a third party for information.
In June, 2016, somebody claiming to be a hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 claimed to actually be behind the attack. There aren’t any other really plausible alternatives. The next day, a self-described Romanian hacker, Guccifer 2.0, claimed he was a WikiLeaks source. Answer (1 of 2): There is lots of evidence that suggests it was most likely the Russians. “The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated,” the official said. On June 15, 2016, CrowdStrike announced that it had detected Russian malware on the DNC’s server. The DNC told BuzzFeed in a statement published last week that the FBI never requested access to its servers after they were breached.īut a senior law enforcement official disputed that characterization the following day. The DNC and the bureau have been quibbling in news reports over whether the FBI asked to examine its servers directly. on Friday June 10 when some 100 staffers filed into the Democratic National Committee’s main conference room for a mandatory, all-hands meeting. ‘DON’T EVEN TALK TO YOUR DOG ABOUT IT’ It was 4 p.m. There’d been a serious breach at the DNC. The director was testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a rare open session on Russian interference in the U.S. A few days later, Amy Dacey, then the DNC chief executive, got an urgent call.
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