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Details emerge about the super sophisticated Russian email attack on the Clinton campaign... using some kind of brainwave control machine they caused the IT campaign aid to make a typo:
http://www.businessinsider.com/typo-...l-hack-2016-12
Wow... The Ruskies are so good they even caused him to make a grammar error as well (as Donut will surely note) and he used "a" instead of "an"! Clearly we need to allocate billions to cyber security so this kind of brainwave attack doesn't happen again with the democrats.
A Hillary Clinton aide says he made a fatal typo that led to John Podesta’s email hack
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Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta fell victim to a cyberattack earlier this year when hackers breached his email account through a phishing message that purported to be from Gmail, telling him to change his password immediately because a third party had attempted to log into his account.
Before Podesta took action, an aide that had access to his account saw the email purporting to be from Google and forwarded it to a computer technician asking if it was legitimate.
Charles Delavan, a Clinton campaign aide, replied with a fatal typo.
"This is a legitimate email," Delavan replied. "John needs to change his password immediately."
Delavan told The New York Times in a story published Tuesday that he had meant to type that it was an "illegitimate" email, but accidentally typed "legitimate" instead.
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Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta fell victim to a cyberattack earlier this year when hackers breached his email account through a phishing message that purported to be from Gmail, telling him to change his password immediately because a third party had attempted to log into his account.
Before Podesta took action, an aide that had access to his account saw the email purporting to be from Google and forwarded it to a computer technician asking if it was legitimate.
Charles Delavan, a Clinton campaign aide, replied with a fatal typo.
"This is a legitimate email," Delavan replied. "John needs to change his password immediately."
Delavan told The New York Times in a story published Tuesday that he had meant to type that it was an "illegitimate" email, but accidentally typed "legitimate" instead.
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Wow... The Ruskies are so good they even caused him to make a grammar error as well (as Donut will surely note) and he used "a" instead of "an"! Clearly we need to allocate billions to cyber security so this kind of brainwave attack doesn't happen again with the democrats.
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