US election: Dutch Secret Service hacked Russian hackers

Was the US election campaign influenced by Russian IT specialists, possibly in the state order? Dutch spies are supposed to have clues.

US election: Dutch Secret Service hacked Russian hackers

Dutch hackers have seen Russian hackers invade US Democrats ' IT systems. As newspaper De Popular Crane reported, a specialist of Dutch Secret Service managed to infiltrate computer network in a university building near Red Square in Moscow in summer of 2014. The network has belonged to Russian hacker group cozy bear.

The Dutch spies, through ir access to Russian computers, have become witnesses to how hackers invaded 2015 in US Democrats ' computers. The Russians succeeded in copying thousands of e-mails and documents. In its report, paper refers to six American and Dutch sources dealing with issue.

According to newspaper, Dutch have repeatedly made Americans aware of attacks. But y would have taken months to understand that Russians were influencing US election, report states.

The hack is also against background of FBI investigation. The US federal police are looking for evidence that Russian hackers on behalf of State influenced race between Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

After election, US investigator Robert Mueller took over investigations. He is looking for evidence that Trump's campaign team was in contact with Russian government circles to make election specifically biased to Trump's favor. Several US intelligence agencies are convinced that Kremlin has something to do with attacks on US Democrats. But also role of Trump's team is subject of Mueller's investigations.

Date Of Update: 27 January 2018, 12:03
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