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How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports:

On March 19 of this year, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta received an alarming email that appeared to come from Google.

The email, however, didn’t come from the internet giant. It was actually an attempt to hack into his personal account. In fact, the message came from a group of hackers that security researchers, as well as the US government, believe are spies working for the Russian government. At the time, however, Podesta didn’t know any of this, and he clicked on the malicious link contained in the email, giving hackers access to his account.

Read more on Motherboard.

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