Democratic Party in The Mueller Report

On Principles & Values: Russia hacked into Party computers & released via WikiLeaks

Starting in April 2016, units of the Russian Federation's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), targeting email accounts used by the Clinton Campaign. In total, the GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents from the compromised email accounts and networks.

Military Units 26165, a cyber-unit of the GRU, carried out the computer intrusions. Unit 26165 was sub-divided into departments with different specialties. One department, for example, developed specialized malicious software ("malware") while another department conducted large-scale spearphishing campaigns.

On April 18, 2016, GRU officers gained access to the DNC network via a virtual private network (VPN) connection between the DCCC and DNC networks. Unit 26165 compromised more than 30 computers on the DNC network, including the DNC mail server and shared file server.

Source: The Mueller Report, Vol. i, pp. 36-8 Apr 23, 2019

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