The Russia-linked hacker behind a massive breach at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) altered a stolen email by labeling it “confidential,” a move intended to draw attention from the news media, The Associated Press reported Friday.
The email in question was the first document published by the hacker Guccifer 2.0 in June 2016. Billed as coming from the DNC, the email was actually stolen from John Podesta, the former chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
That email was marked “confidential.” But a former DNC official told the AP that the label was added to the message only after it was stolen.
The email was just one of at least 50,000 stolen from Podesta’s inbox by hackers believed to be tied to the Russian government. Guccifer 2.0 and the websites WikiLeaks and DCLeaks published more than 150,000 messages stolen from more than a dozen Democrats.
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Russia-linked email hacker altered stolen Podesta emails to get media attention: report https://t.co/wo9Ucmrsqn pic.twitter.com/zPkXOzCQQl
— The Hill (@thehill) November 3, 2017
Boom. AP reports that the Russia-linked hacker Guccifer 2.0 edited leaked documents. https://t.co/jUWTrswjbf pic.twitter.com/B6832NoDc2
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 3, 2017
Of course they did. Standard RIS Active Measures playbook. Since forever. https://t.co/ewVQBuxEVF
— John Schindler (@20committee) November 3, 2017
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