Us Identifies Half Dozen Russian Regime Officials Involved Inward Dnc Hack

The U.S.A. Department of Justice has reportedly gathered plenty bear witness to accuse at to the lowest degree 6 Russian regime officials for allegedly playing a usage inward hacking DNC systems in addition to leaking information during the 2016 presidential race.

Earlier this year, U.S.A. intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government was behind the hack in addition to expose of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails inward gild to influence the 2016 presidential election inward Donald Trump's favour.

Now, citing people familiar amongst the investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Th that U.S.A. federal prosecutors could pick out charges against the alleged unnamed Russian officials early on adjacent year.

The U.S.A. federal intelligence investigators also believe that "dozens" of other Russian officials may pick out also participated inward the DNC hack, which was allegedly ordered yesteryear Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.

However, both Putin in addition to Russian regime officials pick out denied allegations.

The DNC reckoner organisation hack end twelvemonth led to thousands of stolen DNC emails, including personal in addition to sensitive emails from Hillary Clinton campaign managing director John Podesta, appeared on whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

In a split forensic investigation conducted yesteryear FireEye incident reply theatre Mandiant identified hacking tools in addition to techniques used inward the DNC hack associated amongst Fancy Bear—also known every bit APT28, Sofacy, Sednit, in addition to Pawn Storm—a state-sponsored hacking grouping believed to hold upward a unit of measurement of Russian Military Intelligence (the GRU).

U.S. federal agents in addition to prosecutors inward Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia in addition to San Francisco pick out been cooperating amongst the DNC investigation. However, none of them has revealed the actual identity of the 6 suspects.

However, fifty-fifty afterward getting charged, the Russian officials or hackers volition hardly hold upward prosecuted inward the U.S.A. until they come across the U.S.A. reason because the province has no extradition understanding amongst Russia.

This is the minute fourth dimension inward this twelvemonth when the U.S.A. has charged Russian officials amongst cyber crimes.

In March 2017, the DoJ charged 2 Russian intelligence officers—Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev in addition to Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin—and 2 criminal hackers—Alexsey Alexseyevich Belan in addition to Karim Baratov—in connection amongst the 2014 Yahoo hack that exposed nearly 500 1 thou m Yahoo user accounts.

However, no 1 has e'er seen the insides of a U.S.A. courtroom.

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