US officials suspect Russians hacked DNC emails
US officials say the Russians have carried out a wave of cyber attacks aimed at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) as well as other political organizations and academic think tanks in Washington, DC.
The FBI and other counter-intelligence agencies involved in the probe of the DNC hacking have not yet officially attributed the cyber attack to Russian government hackers.
But American security officials briefed on the investigation say evidence collected by the FBI so far points to groups that are known to US agencies for carrying out cyber attacks for the Russian government.
Generally, foreign spy agencies gather such information to try to better inform their governments about US politics. US spy agencies do the same in other countries.
The release of the emails over the weekend, however, raised new questions among government and private sector security officials.
On Friday, WikiLeaks released about 20,000 emails from the DNC that show top Democrats writing off Senator Bernie Sanders's chances during the primary elections.
The organization, which publishes secret information and classified media, did not identify the source.
However, the campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton accused Russia, saying the publication of the stolen emails is aimed at helping Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump win the election.
“There's evidence Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole those emails, and there are experts saying they are releasing these emails for the purpose of helping Donald Trump,” Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday.
“I don't think it's coincidental these emails were released on the eve of our convention here,” he said.
“We need to be concerned Trump and his allies made changes to the platform to make it more pro-Russian, and we saw him talking about how NATO shouldn't intervene [in Russian disputes]. So I think when you put it all together, it's a disturbing picture," he said.
Trump's campaign called that accusation a “joke.”
“This shows that Hillary Clinton will do and say anything to win the election and hold onto power in the rigged system,” said Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser for Trump.
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