Emails of top House GOP officials stolen in major hack before 2018 midterms - Polidicks

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/04/exclusive-emails-of-top-nrcc-officials-stolen-in-major-2018-hack-1043309 The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according to three senior party officials. The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party officials said. The intrusion was detected in April by an NRCC vendor, who alerted the committee and its cybersecurity contractor. An internal investigation was initiated and the FBI was alerted to the attack, said the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the incident. However, senior House Republicans — including Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) — were not informed of the hack until POLITICO contacted the NRCC on Monday with questions about the episode. Rank-and-file House Republicans were not told, either. Committee officials said they decided to withhold the information because they were intent on conducting their own investigation, and feared that revealing the hack would compromise efforts to find the culprit. Party officials would not say when the hack began or who was behind it, although they privately believe it was a foreign agent due to the nature of the attack. Donor information was not compromised during the intrusion, the party officials said. “The NRCC can confirm that it was the victim of a cyber intrusion by an unknown entity. The cybersecurity of the Committee’s data is paramount, and upon learning of the intrusion, the NRCC immediately launched an internal investigation and notified the FBI, which is now investigating the matter,” said Ian Prior, a vice president at Mercury. None of the information accessed during the hack — thousands of emails from senior NRCC aides — has appeared in public, party officials said. And they said there were no attempts to threaten the NRCC or its leadership during the campaign with exposure of the information.

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https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1070000145146748928

Oh boy, safety kompromat. Now the entire national GOP is potentially compromised to blackmail, not just the President.

Cool, a political system is making life harder for itself because it's caught in it's own system of bullshit.

What will happen if this potentially leads to every single Republican senator voting against Trump's impeachment, regardless of whether they're in bed with the russians or not? They all undoubtedly to have their share of skeletons in the closet, even if they don't approach the level of national treason.

Massive riots and some Senators could die.

I want to preface my answer with a very clear disclaimer that I am neither planning to commit any illegal actions (in a foreign country no less) nor do I condone any such illegal actions. But if I was a Republican Senator and the scenario you hypothesize actually occurred, I'd stop showing up to Senate baseball practice for a few weeks...

This shit better get released.

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Violent american uprising is one of those things that I'll have to see starting before I'll ever believe it'll happen

they knew for 8 fucking months and torpedoed any and all election security bills and funding. Just fucking collapse already.

At some point such illegal actions are not only justified but necessary. Certainly not now, but when the government removes the citizens' ability to peacefully change things, they're still going to change things. Just not peacefully.

If my governemnt is refusing to carry out the tasks of their position ethically because of blackmail by a hostile foreign country government they dont deserve their position and deserve to be in jail if they dont remove themselves immediately or shape up.

I can't believe I'm about to defend the Republican party on something but can I just say that this idea that the entirety of the GOP is compromised by Russia and ergo are literal traitors to the country is an Alex Jones-tier conspiracy theory?

It really isn't.

Yeah, that's why Putin used his puppets in the Republican controlled Congress to end the sanctions against him, withdraw from Syria, and pull our military forces away from Russia's border.