Cyber inquiry

FBI probes reported hack against Clinton.

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are investigating what the Hillary Clinton campaign says was a hack into a computer network used by it and other Democratic groups.

The revelation follows what appears to be a similar attack last month against the Democratic National Committee and another on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

“The FBI is aware of media reporting on cyber intrusions involving multiple political entities, and is working to determine the accuracy, nature and scope of these matters,” the FBI said in a statement late Friday. “The cyber threat environment continues to evolve as cyber actors target all sectors and their data.”

Federal law enforcement officials have said the hack probably was carried out by Russian intelligence agents, raising the troubling scenario that an adversarial nation may be trying to influence the U.S. election.

“An analytics data program maintained by the DNC, and used by our campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed as part of the DNC hack,” the Clinton campaign said in a statement Friday.

“Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts,” the statement continued. “To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised.”

The release of party emails by WikiLeaks just ahead of last week’s Democratic National Convention created a political mess for Democratic officials, revealing embarrassing fundraising details and comments suggesting the party was violating its commitment of neutrality in the presidential primary by aiding Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Democratic Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign her post.

Republican candidate Donald Trump appeared to relish the spectacle, and dared Russia to track down the more than 30,000 emails that Clinton had deleted from a private email server she maintained while serving as secretary of State.

Clinton’s lawyers said the deleted emails were not work-related, but FBI investigators recovered some that they determined were not personal and should not have been deleted.

Trump later said he was being sarcastic about encouraging Russia to hack into U.S. computers to hurt his presidential rival.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told CNN last week that he had more material that could damage Clinton in the election and may release it later.

‘The FBI ... is working to determine the accuracy, nature and scope of these matters.’ — FBI statement