A look at hacking events of the Democratic National Committee’s network and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign which have been linked to Russia
September 2015:
An FBI agent tells the Democratic National Committee (DNC) its computer network had been hacked by a group associated with the Russian government
June 15, 2016:
A hacker named Guccifer 2.0 releases documents stolen by a cyberespionage group from the Democratic National Committee computer network
July 22, 2016:
Wikileaks publishes 20,000 emails stolen from the DNC, which reveal that some staffers were promoting Clinton at the expense of Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 25-26, 2016:
The FBI investigates the DNC hacks and intelligence officials tell the White House they believe the Russian government directed the cyberespionage
July 27, 2016:
In a campaign rally speech, Trump urged Russia to hack into Clinton’s emails. “Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 missing emails”
October 7, 2016
Wikileaks publishes the first of several batches of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton election campaign manager John Podesta’s email account
January 6, 2017:
A US intelligence report say Russia “ordered an influence campaign in 2016” in favour of Trump and Russians were behind the hacking of the Clinton campaign
April 6, 2017:
The NYT reports that Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, failed to report meetings with Russian officials during the presidential campaign