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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bonefish who wrote (1008960)3/31/2017 12:52:11 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (3) of 1572763
 
Marco Rubio says his presidential campaign was subject to hacking .

Sen. Marco Rubio revealed today that members of his former presidential campaign team were the subject of an apparent Russian hacking attempt yesterday.

“In the first panel, one of the individuals who appeared before us mentioned me in connection with efforts in the 2016 presidential primary,” Rubio said during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.

"In July of 2016, shortly after I announced that I would seek reelection to the United States Senate, former members of my presidential campaign team, who had access to the internal information of my presidential campaign, were targeted by IP addresses with an unknown location within Russia. That effort was unsuccessful.

“I'd also inform the committee that within the last 24 hours, at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, a second attempt was made, again against former members of my presidential campaign team, who had access to our internal information, again targeted from an IP address from an unknown location in Russia, and that effort was also unsuccessful.”



During the hearing an intelligence expert testified that Rubio “anecdotally suffered" from Russian social media hijinks during the presidential campaign. That assessment came from Clint Watts with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, who said Paul Ryan was also targeted. He spoke today before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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