Obama's Email Hacked?

Earlier in the month, US officials confirmed that there was a cyber-event last year but would not confirm that Russia was involved in the attack. But now a senior American official is stating that the hackers may be working for Moscow. They have stated that the hackers infiltrated the State Department’s unclassified system, and from there got into the email archives of White House personnel whom Obama had emailed regularly. Officials don’t believe that the hackers got into the server that holds messages from Obama’s BlackBerry nor have the hackers penetrated any classified networks. However, officials said that the unclassified system often holds highly sensitive material such as schedules, emails with ambassadors and diplomats, personnel moves, and debates about policy. The email account of Obama’s had not been breach itself, but it is unclear how many emails were read that Obama had sent. Even so, the fact that it came from Russia is scary enough. It is unclear what their exact motives were as of yet. 

http://www.securityweek.com/russian-hackers-read-obama-emails-report

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