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Hacker leaks over 260 internal Democratic Party files on Hillary Clinton

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Dissent

From the I-doubt-this-will-help-her-campaign dept., Jason Murdock reports:

The hacker responsible for breaching the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has released a fresh trove of 261 internal files, donor lists and memos – largely focused on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The data dump, leaked by a hacker dubbed “Guccifer 2.0”, consists of a password-protected cache of 261 separate documents in PDF, Word and Excel formats. It comes after two previous releaseswhich included Democratic Party records and a strategic playbook compiled on presidential hopeful Donald Trump.

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