DCLeaks

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DCLeaks (also known as DC Leaks) is a website that was established in June 2016. Since its creation, it has been responsible for publishing leaks of emails belonging to multiple prominent figures in the United States government and military. Cybersecurity research firms say the site is a front for the Russian cyber-espionage group Fancy Bear. On July 13th, 2018, an indictment was made against 12 Russian GRU military officers; it alleges that DC Leaks is part of a Russian military operation.

Identity

Cybersecurity research firm ThreatConnect concluded in their analysis that the DCLeaks project shows the hallmarks of Russian intelligence, matching the attack pattern of the GRU hacker group Fancy Bear.[1][2][3][4][5] Cybersecurity research firm ThreatConnect concluded that the site is likely linked to Russian persona Guccifer 2.0 and the GRU-linked hacker group Fancy Bear.[1]

The site is thought by private cybersecurity analysts[1] and the US intelligence community[6] to be a part of Russian interference in the 2016 US elections.

According to the DCLeaks site's "About" page, their aim is "to find out and tell you the truth about U.S. decision-making process [sic] as well as about the key elements of American political life." Of themselves, they say that they were launched by "the American hacktivists who respect and appreciate freedom of speech, human rights and government of the people."[7]

On the 13th of July 2018 a Federal Grand Jury for the District of Columbia Indicted members of Unit 26165 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) in creating the DCLeaks website, hacking the Democratic National Committee and releasing stolen data on the website.[8][9][10]

History

The domain name dcleaks.com was registered on April 19, 2016, on the THCservers.com founded by Catalin Floricain on a former chicken farm near Craiova, Romania.[11][12] Shinjiru Technology at Kuala Lumpur hosted the DCLeaks files during the electoral campaign.[12] The dcleaks.com website was launched in June 2016.[13]

Leaks

On August 12, 2016, the press reported that the DNC had been breached for nearly a year, from the summer 2015 and the other in April 2016. The attacker was knocked out of its network during the weekend of June 11 and 12, 2016.[14]

In late June 2016, Guccifer 2.0 informed reporters to visit the DCLeaks website for emails stolen from Democrats.[15] With the WikiLeaks disclosure of additional stolen emails beginning on July 22, 2016, more than 150,000 stolen emails from either personal Gmail addresses or via the DNC that were related to the Hilary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign were published on the DCLeaks and WikiLeaks websites.[15]

On July 1, 2016, DCLeaks released the emails of four-star General Philip Breedlove, the former NATO supreme commander in Europe. The emails allegedly show that Breedlove sought to overcome President Barack Obama's reluctance to escalate military tensions with Russia over the war in Ukraine in 2014.[16][17]

On August 12, 2016, DCLeaks released roughly 300 emails from Republican targets, including the 2016 campaign staff of Arizona Senator John McCain, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, and 2012 presidential candidate and former Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann.[13] The release included 18 emails from the Illinois Republican Party.[18]

On August 12, 2016, DCLeaks released information about more than 200 Democratic lawmakers, including their personal cellphone numbers.[5] The numerous crank calls that Hillary Clinton received from this disclosure along with the loss of her campaign's email security caused a very severe disruption of her campaign which subsequently changed their contact information on October 7, 2016, by calling each of her contacts one at a time.[15]

On August 15, 2016, DCLeaks released 2,576 files predominately related to George Soros' Open Society Foundation. The leak included the Foundation's internal work plans, strategies, priorities and other worldwide activities by Soros.[2][19][20]

See also

References

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  8. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44825345
  9. ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/13/politics/russia-investigation-indictments/index.html
  10. ↑ http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/images/07/13/gru.indictment.pdf
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External links

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