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Hackers infiltrated into Obama’s & McCain’s networks

Posted on 07.11.2008 at 15:42 in Tech News by Martin

Foreign hackers infiltrated the networks of John McCain and Barack Obama during the US presidential campaign, according to reports. CNN and Newsweek cited sources within both camps as reporting that hackers from an undisclosed foreign location targeted each network over the summer in an attempt to acquire information. The report did not specify which group or nation was responsible for the attacks, but the target appears to be documents outlining the candidates’ policy proposals. The information would reportedly have been used in future policy negotiations with the winning candidate.

Following the attacks both camps reportedly hired outside consultants to seal up any security flaws, and the FBI and Secret Service are both said to be investigating the incidents. Hacking for political reasons has emerged in recent years as a companion to traditional espionage. In 2007, Chinese government officials were accused of hacking government sites in the US, France, Germany and the UK. Russian nationalists have also been thought to use cyber-attacks to supplement their political efforts. In the midst of conflicts with Estonia and Georgia, Russian hackers were said to be masterminding attacks on government and social infrastructure sites.

Source: Vnunet

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  1. james
    November 7th, 2008 | 15:59

    @6

    I could outline there foreign policy objections. WAR,WAR,WAR!

  2. n4zi man
    November 7th, 2008 | 16:27

    sad to see a black man running white mans country

  3. steve
    November 7th, 2008 | 16:37

    Well black people really need to thank George Bush for making this possible, they owe him huge and Palin as well.

    I really hope we (the US) arent as in the dark as they seem when it comes to hackers prodding around in our networks. I really hope we have a secret agency somewhere with its finger on the button, a big INTERNET Button that shuts down the entire internet if anything goes wrong.

    And Al Gore’s at the helm…

  4. Kill Obama
    November 7th, 2008 | 16:43

    Pic of Obama hacked:

    http://www.imageflux.net/uploads/8302241160683044065a.jpg

  5. faschoklatscher
    November 7th, 2008 | 16:58

    All facists will go to hell ! ! !

    We are ONE human race… there is not another planet to live on. Start working together or kill yourself. It’s that simple.

  6. s3n
    November 7th, 2008 | 17:03

    As Lawrence Wright said a while ago, the US has a few hundred cyber-war personnel, none of whom speak speak mandarin. The Chinese have 30,000 all of which speak english.
    You gonna get pwned.

  7. BT
    November 7th, 2008 | 18:08

    He could have been either black or white. Probably why he didn’t play with the being black issue. Most important is he’s the american president now. Hope he live’s up to his promises.

  8. Johney666
    November 7th, 2008 | 18:17

    Let’s frag their as5es, kill them all!

    BTW, I don’t think the chinese haxors had anything to do with this. If it was China, N. Kor, Iran etc. they would not have lost this chance to whine about it and trying to earn some support in the name of patriotism. But the hush hush manner is which this is being delt with makes me think whether the hack was orchestrated by the Isralelis. Just a thought.

  9. abc
    November 7th, 2008 | 21:17

    funny how the media is only blaming China and Russia of “political hacking” not the United States or any other country.. uuuuh bad communists :D

  10. Pegasus
    November 8th, 2008 | 00:40

    Hax0r jews on steroids? Egads!

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