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Wall Street Journal - Republican National Committee Security Foiled Russian Hackers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/republic...ers-1481850043

Russian hackers tried to penetrate the computer networks of the Republican National Committee, using the same techniques that allowed them to infiltrate its Democratic counterpart, according to U.S. officials who have been briefed on the attempted intrusion.

But the intruders failed to get past security defenses on the RNC’s computer networks, the officials said. And people close to the investigation said it indicated a less aggressive and much less persistent effort by Russian intelligence to hack the Republican group than the Democratic National Committee. Only a single email account linked to a long-departed RNC staffer was targeted.

Independent computer security experts said it was plausible that the RNC’s filtering systems stopped any potentially dangerous emails from reaching their targets. But the fact that they failed doesn’t mean they preferred one candidate over another, nor that they don’t harbor plans to leak embarrassing information about Republicans or Mr. Trump in the future, now that he’s about to assume the presidency.

So, once again, the NY Times report that the Russians succeeded in hacking both the DNC and the RNC but only released the emails they pulled from the DNC and sat on the emails they pulled from the RNC in an effort to promote Trump is FAKE NEWS!