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S.“I had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call,” Mr. Tamene wrote in an internal memo, obtained by The New York Times, that detailed his contact with the F. B. I. It was the cryptic first sign of a cyberespionage and information- warfare campaign devised to disrupt the 2. American history. What started as an information- gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent, Donald J. Trump. Like another famous American election scandal, it started with a break- in at the D. N. C. The first time, 4. Watergate complex, the burglars planted listening devices and jimmied a filing cabinet. This time, the burglary was conducted from afar, directed by the Kremlin, with spear- phishing emails and zeros and ones. In “spear- phishing,” the email is tailored to fool a specific person. The failure to grasp the scope of the attacks undercut efforts to minimize their impact. And the White House’s reluctance to respond forcefully meant the Russians have not paid a heavy price for their actions, a decision that could prove critical in deterring future cyberattacks. The low- key approach of the F. B. I. In the meantime, the hackers moved on to targets outside the D. N. C., including Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, whose private email account was hacked months later. Even Mr. Podesta, a savvy Washington insider who had written a 2. President Obama, did not truly understand the gravity of the hacking. Photo. Charles Delavan, a Clinton campaign aide, incorrectly legitimized a phishing email sent to the personal account of John D. Podesta, the campaign chairman. By last summer, Democrats watched in helpless fury as their private emails and confidential documents appeared online day after day — procured by Russian intelligence agents, posted on Wiki. Leaks and other websites, then eagerly reported on by the American media, including The Times. Trump gleefully cited many of the purloined emails on the campaign trail. The fallout included the resignations of Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the chairwoman of the D. N. C., and most of her top party aides. Leading Democrats were sidelined at the height of the campaign, silenced by revelations of embarrassing emails or consumed by the scramble to deal with the hacking. Though little- noticed by the public, confidential documents taken by the Russian hackers from the D. Tamene wrote in an internal memo, obtained by The New York Times. N. C.’s sister organization, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, turned up in congressional races in a dozen states, tainting some of them with accusations of scandal. Photo. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a reception last week at the Kremlin in Moscow. Credit. Pool photo by Alexei Nikolsky In recent days, a skeptical president- elect, the nation’s intelligence agencies and the two major parties have become embroiled in an extraordinary public dispute over what evidence exists that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia moved beyond mere espionage to deliberately try to subvert American democracy and pick the winner of the presidential election. Many of Mrs. Clinton’s closest aides believe that the Russian assault had a profound impact on the election, while conceding that other factors — Mrs. For the ninth edition of the magazine, the.Clinton’s weaknesses as a candidate; her private email server; the public statements of the F. B. I. Comey, about her handling of classified information — were also important. While there’s no way to be certain of the ultimate impact of the hack, this much is clear: A low- cost, high- impact weapon that Russia had test- fired in elections from Ukraine to Europe was trained on the United States, with devastating effectiveness. For Russia, with an enfeebled economy and a nuclear arsenal it cannot use short of all- out war, cyberpower proved the perfect weapon: cheap, hard to see coming, hard to trace. Election. How U. S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency and commander of United States Cyber Command, said at a postelection conference. Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress and a key Clinton supporter, recalls walking into the busy Clinton transition offices, humiliated to see her face on television screens as pundits discussed a leaked email in which she had called Mrs. Clinton’s instincts “suboptimal.”“It was just a sucker punch to the gut every day,” Ms. Tanden said. But the Russian attack is increasingly understood across the political spectrum as an ominous historic landmark — with one notable exception: Mr. Trump has rejected the findings of the intelligence agencies he will soon oversee as “ridiculous,” insisting that the hacker may be American, or Chinese, but that “they have no idea.”Mr. Trump cited the reported disagreements between the agencies about whether Mr. Putin intended to help elect him. On Tuesday, a Russian government spokesman echoed Mr. Trump’s scorn.“This tale of .
Trump’s skeptical claims.“Democrats and Republicans must work together, and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress, to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyberattacks,” said Senators John Mc. Cain, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Schumer and Jack Reed.“This cannot become a partisan issue,” they said. Only a framed newspaper story hanging on the wall hints at the importance of this aged piece of office furniture.“GOP Security Aide Among 5 Arrested in Bugging Affair,” reads the headline from the front page of The Washington Post on June 1. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Andrew Brown, 3. 7, the technology director at the D. N. C., was born after that famous break- in. But as he began to plan for this year’s election cycle, he was well aware that the D. N. C. Brown and his bosses at the organization acknowledged: The D. N. C. Brown said. The D. N. C. But when Russian hackers started in on the D. N. C., the committee did not have the most advanced systems in place to track suspicious traffic, internal D. N. C. Tamene, who reports to Mr. Brown and fielded the call from the F. B. I. He was left to figure out, largely on his own, how to respond — and even whether the man who had called in to the D. N. C. Tamene wrote in an internal memo about his contacts with the F. B. I. He added that “the Special Agent told me to look for a specific type of malware dubbed . Nor could he email anyone there, as that risked alerting the hackers that the F. B. I. Tamene’s initial scan of the D. N. C. So when Special Agent Hawkins called repeatedly in October, leaving voice mail messages for Mr. Tamene, urging him to call back, “I did not return his calls, as I had nothing to report,” Mr. Tamene explained in his memo. In November, Special Agent Hawkins called with more ominous news. Tamene’s memo says, referring to software sending information to Moscow. Brown knew that Mr. Tamene, who declined to comment, was fielding calls from the F. B. I. But he was tied up on a different problem: evidence suggesting that the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Mrs. Clinton’s main Democratic opponent, had improperly gained access to her campaign data. Ms. Wasserman Schultz, then the D. N. C.’s chairwoman, and Amy Dacey, then its chief executive, said in interviews that neither of them was notified about the early reports that the committee’s system had likely been compromised. Shawn Henry, who once led the F. B. I.’s cyber division and is now president of Crowd. Strike Services, the cybersecurity firm retained by the D. N. C. This is a critical piece of the U. S. Tamene and his team had met at least twice in person with the F. B. I. But then the situation took a dire turn. A second team of Russian- affiliated hackers began to target the D. N. C. Billy Rinehart, a former D. N. C. Clinton’s campaign, got an odd email warning from Google.“Someone just used your password to try to sign into your Google account,” the March 2. Ukraine. You should change your password immediately.”Mr. Rinehart was in Hawaii at the time. He remembers checking his email at 4 a. Without thinking much about the notification, he clicked on the “change password” button and half asleep, as best he can remember, he typed in a new password. Photo. A screenshot of the phishing email that Billy Rinehart clicked on, unknowingly giving Russian hackers access to his account. The New York Times has redacted Mr. Rinehart’s email address. What he did not know until months later is that he had just given the Russian hackers access to his email account. Hundreds of similar phishing emails were being sent to American political targets, including an identical email sent on March 1. Mr. Podesta, chairman of the Clinton campaign. Given how many emails Mr. Podesta received through this personal email account, several aides also had access to it, and one of them noticed the warning email, sending it to a computer technician to make sure it was legitimate before anyone clicked on the “change password” button.“This is a legitimate email,” Charles Delavan, a Clinton campaign aide, replied to another of Mr. Podesta’s aides, who had noticed the alert. Podesta maintained in his Gmail account — a total of about 6. Russian hackers. Delavan, in an interview, said that his bad advice was a result of a typo: He knew this was a phishing attack, as the campaign was getting dozens of them. He said he had meant to type that it was an “illegitimate” email, an error that he said has plagued him ever since. Photo. Mr. Podesta, center, with Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, in Brooklyn the day after the election. Hackers gained access to tens of thousands of Mr. Podesta’s emails. Credit. Dave Sanders for The New York Times During this second wave, the hackers also gained access to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and then, through a virtual private network connection, to the main computer network of the D. N. C. The F. B. I. Tamene to warn him.
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