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DNC Staffer got pop-up messages alerting of state-sponsored actors

DNC Staffer got pop-up messages alerting of state-sponsored actors

August 2, 2016

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An e-mail message within the Wikileaks dump of Democratic National Committee data suggests that the Yahoo account of one DNC staffer may have been specifically targeted by Russian hackers. The leaked message from DNC staffer Alexandra Chalupa includes a photo of a screen displaying a pop-up alert in Yahoo Mail warning, “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”

“Since I started digging into [Trump campaign chairman Paul] Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often,” Chalupa reported in the message.

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