Possible Clinton Foundation hack could expose treatment of top donors

Top officials at the Clinton Foundation believe the organization was hacked — causing concern that the data breach will show Hillary Clinton and State Department staff giving preferential treatment to top donors.
No message or document from the New York-based Clinton Foundation has surfaced yet in public.
But the foundation has hired the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked, sources told Reuters.


The Clinton Foundation has been scrutinized for accepting foreign donations and after it was revealed certain top level donors got preferential treatment at the State Department.

And the suspected hack has left some Democrats and Clinton campaign officials worried that cyber-infiltrators might have obtained emails and voice messages that could be used to bolster allegations that donors to the Clinton Foundation were rewarded with access to Clinton and her aides while she was secretary of state, or to her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Neither former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, the Clinton Foundation’s principal lawyer, nor a spokeswoman for the foundation responded to requests for comment on the hacking and the precautions the organization has taken. Officials with FireEye said the company could not discuss its clients.

U.S. officials said the hackers used the same techniques Russian intelligence agencies or their proxies employed against the Democratic Party groups, which suggests that Russians also attacked the foundation.
Kremlin officials dismissed as absurd the allegations of Moscow’s involvement, which were made last month amid political party nominating conventions for the Nov. 8 election.

Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat on the House of Representatives intelligence committee, said the United States should carry “a big stick” in cyber security matters.
“The U.S. government needs to be very clear, very direct, and hold these people accountable.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MEET BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Image
A newly uncovered photo shows the Westchester woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase out on the town with her alleged killer months before the attack. The photo from Feb. 8, 2018, shows Valerie Reyes and her suspected killer, Javier da Silva Rojas, in a Mt. Vernon CVS. Reyes strikes an innocent pose while Rojas grimaces at the camera in the snap, which Rojas posted to his Instagram. Cops say Rojas killed Reyes, bound her and stuffed her body in a suitcase before dumping the baggage in tony Greenwich, Connecticut. The body was discovered on Feb. 5, and Rojas, a Queens resident, was busted Monday because he tried to use Reyes’ ATM card to withdraw $1,000 from her bank account on Jan. 30. Rojas has admitted hiding the corpse, but claims Reyes died accidentally while they were having sex on Jan. 29. Reyes’ mother said in court papers that Rojas and her daughter broke up a year ago — around the time the photo was taken.
Read more

Dozens killed in stampede during Ethiopia protest

Image
A regional government in Ethiopia has confirmed that 52 people have been killed in a stampede after police tried to disperse an anti-government protest at a massive religious festival. The Oromia regional government confirmed the death toll late Sunday. The government is also declaring three days of national mourning. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– The stampede occurred in one of the East African country’s most politically sensitive regions, Oromia. It has seen months of sometimes deadly demonstrations demanding wider freedoms. An estimated 2 million people were attending the annual Irrecha thanksgiving festival in the town of Bishoftu, southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa, when people began chanting slogans against the government, according to witnesses. The chanting crowds pressed toward a stage where religious leaders were speaking, the witnesses said, and some threw rocks and plastic bottles. Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, and people trie
Read more

New iPhone might finally survive getting dropped in the toilet

Image
the camera features of the iPhone7. The biggest news at Apple’s iPhone 7 product launch on Wednesday wasn’t about what’s in, but rather, what’s out. The latest version of the iPhone will be entering a brave new wireless world — without a standard headphone jack. Apple called the move courageous, while Twitter and other online critics quickly let out a collective groan. “The reason to move on: courage,” insisted Apple executive Phil Schiller during the presentation. “The courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us.” The new, sleeker model — which is water and dust resistant — will come with special headphones that fit into the device’s Lightning connection port, which in past models was solely the charging port. the water resistance of the iPhone7 But the tech giant hopes users will splurge on its new wireless earbuds, called Apple AirPods, which require charging and will cost an extra $159 when they become available in
Read more