New York Daily News

DONALD TRUMP

I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so. People say what do you mean? I just think we would.

- BY GINGER ADAMS OTIS

THE EVIDENCE mounted Tuesday that Vladimir Putin’s cyberspies were behind the embarrassi­ng hack of the Democratic National Committee’s email servers as a favor to Donald Trump.

Guccifer 2.0 — a lone hacker who claims to be Romanian — came forward as the sneak who broke into DNC servers.

But security experts have remained skeptical of Guccifer 2.0 — whose true identity is not known.

All signs point to a cyberattac­k from Russian intelligen­ce, multiple experts have said. Guccifer 2.0 could just be a red herring, or a front for Russia’s gang.

The DNC hack led to a series of red-faced revelation­s for the Democratic Party — including the release of early opposition research on GOP presidenti­al nominee Trump.

Another chunk of purloined emails — posted online by WikiLeaks Friday — forced the ouster of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the Democrats were opening their national convention to nominate Hillary Clinton.

The internal exchanges raised serious concerns that Wasserman Schultz had favored Clinton over her primary rival, Bernie Sanders.

A U.S. intelligen­ce official Tuesday told CBS News that Russia’s fingerprin­ts were all over the DNC email theft.

“We understand how hack groups use the Internet to attack. The pattern and launch point used before by Russians is similar to the DNC attack,” the official said.

His assessment matched that of Michael Buratowski, a cyberterro­rism expert.

His company, Cybersecur­ity, was hired by the DNC to probe the hacking that began about a year ago and involved at least two infiltrato­rs, Buratowski said.

The guilty parties used “Russian internet addresses, Russian language keyboards, and the time codes (correspond­ed) to business hours in Russia,” Buratowski said,

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