Investigation Shows Extent Of Russian Campaign Hacking, Limited Democratic Response

A new investigative story from a team of veteran New York Times reporters lays out the extent of Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee and shows a strikingly limited response by the committee.

For example, when an FBI agent first contacted the DNC in September 2015 to warn of a potential hack, the story says, he was transferred to a tech support contractor who waited to act on the tip — and the contractor wasn't even sure the person on the other end was a real FBI agent.

The story, by reporters Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane, ran online under the headline "The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S." In the Tuesday print edition, the story's headline was "Hacking the Democrats" above the subhead, "How Russia Honed Its Cyberpower and Trained it on an American Election"

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