Hacker Guccifer 2.0 leaks more Democratic National Committee documents

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile says Donald Trump stands to benefit from the release of the hacked DNC documents.

Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile says Donald Trump stands to benefit from the release of the hacked DNC documents.

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Hacker Guccifer 2.0 released more Democratic National Committee documents in the latest leak Tuesday.

The 600-megabyte data dump revealed at a London cybersecurity conference included spreadsheets that appeared to show DNC donors' personal information, Politico reported.

Officials at the DNC, the party's electoral strategy organization, said they were aware of more documents "stolen by Russian agents."

"The DNC is the victim of a crime — an illegal cyber-attack by Russian state-sponsored agents who seek to harm the Democratic Party and progressive groups in an effort to influence the presidential election," Interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile said in a statement.

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The contents of the documents, published through WikiLeaks, ultimately led to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

The contents of the documents, published through WikiLeaks, ultimately led to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

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"There's one person who stands to benefit from these criminal acts, and that's Donald Trump," she added. "Not only has Trump embraced Putin, he publicly encouraged further Russian espionage to help his campaign."

Brazile said the DNC's lawyers are reviewing the documents and suggested some of the ones that were released could have been "forged."

The most recent breach claimed by Guccifer 2.0 contained detailed documents outlining DNC fundraising methods, including donors' names, addresses, emails and phone numbers. The cache may even divulge the personal cell phone numbers of vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine and key White House officials, an NBC News reporter tweeted.

Brazile blamed Trump for encouraging the Russian espionage.

Brazile blamed Trump for encouraging the Russian espionage.

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Other documents in the cache focused on tech programs during Kaine's tenure as governor of Virginia and memos about redistricting, according to Politico. Social media users, including WikiLeaks, spread links to access the data dump Tuesday night.

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The hacker transmitted a speech read earlier in the day at a conference called the Future of Cyber Security Europe, Forbes magazine reported. Guccifer gave a small group of security experts a link and password to the new documents in the course of a long rant.

"We should start now to prevent electronic apocalypse and rise of the machines in the future," Guccifer said. "Or else it would be too late. As the financial corporations are ruling the world now, so the IT companies will rule it in the near future." 

It’s no secret Trump is a fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It’s no secret Trump is a fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Russian hackers are believed to be behind the breach that exposed thousands of emails from the DNC earlier this summer, including those that showed members favoring Hillary Clinton over nomination rival Bernie Sanders.

The documents, published through WikiLeaks, ultimately led to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

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The same group is thought to be responsible for hacks of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

U.S. officials have repeatedly fingered the Russian government for trying to interfere in the upcoming U.S. elections, and a letter from Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid seen by the New York Times asks the FBI to investigate possible links to Trump's campaign.

Trump, for his part, has repeatedly praised Putin and, in July, even jokingly encouraged Russian authorities to hack and release the emails that Clinton sent and received on her private server at the State Department that she is thought to have deleted.

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