Remember a few days ago before Manafort and Cohen when the media was going crazy because the Democrats DNC claimed they had been hacked by a “foreign entity?” That story was like the top news until the judgement against Manafort and the pleading guilty of Cohen. Well guess what? That so called DNC ‘hack’ was a false alarm.
It’s ok though. The media and Democrats did what they wanted. They let the story stay out there for days, getting Americans worried if Russia was “hacking” the 2018. No media outfits have issued corrections.
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The DNC walked back an assertion that it had detected a “sophisticated” hacking attempt early Thursday, announcing instead that it was simply a subcontractor’s unauthorized security test.
Why it matters: While this is a slight black eye for the DNC, who look a little foolish for riling up the press over what turned out to be an internal matter, it’s a massive victory for Lookout, the third-party security firm that caught the “attempt” with its unique approach to discovering phishing sites.