Russian hackers successfully broke into a server at Burisma, the Ukrainian company on whose board Hunter Biden sat—likely with the express purpose of digging up dirt on the Bidens
, adding that the timing on the Russian hacking campaign “mirrors” the DNC and Podesta hacks. “Once again, they are stealing email credentials, in what we can only assume is a repeat of Russian interference in the last election.”
While it still remains officially unclear what exactly the Russians were looking for, or what they found, thenotes that Biden was likely the target, as “experts say the timing and scale of the attacks suggest that the Russians could be searching for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens—the same kind of information that Mr. Trump wanted from Ukraine.
Assuming that Russia was digging around for damaging information on the Bidens, the Burisma hack suggests Russia is repeating its 2016 playbook ahead of 2020, using traditional hacking efforts to damage Trump's rival. “The Burisma hack is a cookie-cutter G.R.U. campaign,” Falkowitz told the. “Russian hackers, as sophisticated as they are, also tend to be lazy. They use what works. And in this, they were successful.
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