Democratic National Committee cyber attacks

June 24, 2025 - The FBI repeatedly stressed to ... The FBI therefore had to rely on an assessment from CrowdStrike instead, who were hired by the DNC to investigate the cyber attacks....

September 26, 2019 - On the far-right fringes, however, a conspiracy theory formed that Crowdstrike was somehow part of a Deep State plot to wrongly blame Russia for the DNC hack. This theory claims that because the DNC and Crowdstrike didn’t give the FBI the “server” that was hacked, that was evidence of a cover-up.

December 3, 2019 - Most experts argue that the FBI’s forensic methods produced superior evidence than would be obtained from unplugging the machine and hauling it away, which would have caused important evidence resident in memory to disappear. Finally, a physical DNC server hacked by the Russians now sits in the DNC basement next to the filing cabinet broken into by the Watergate burglars. “CrowdStrike got a forensic image, which was provided to the FBI,” according to a Department of Defense cyber threat analyst who spoke with CSO.

April 30, 2021 - THE FACTS: Social media posts are wrongly claiming that the FBI failed to review evidence in the hack of the DNC’s computer network before concluding that Russia was responsible for the breach. The claims circulated widely on Twitter and Facebook after the White House released a rough transcript of a July phone call President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he asked Zelenskiy to investigate CrowdStrike.

April 14, 2021 - The DNC only learned that the Russian government was targeting them in the spring of 2016, from CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company. The transcript also reveals that the DNC gave the FBI everything it asked for: roughly 15 gigabytes of server ...

September 25, 2024 - The DNC declined, perhaps reluctant ... to share full copies of the hacked servers with the bureau, giving the FBI access to the same evidence Crowdstrike had....

January 6, 2017 - “The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division and its Washington Field Office, the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and US Attorney’s Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation, but the FBI never requested access to the DNC’s computer servers,” Eric Walker, the DNC’s deputy communications director, told BuzzFeed News. The FBI instead relied on the assessment from a third-party security company called CrowdStrIke.

September 25, 2019 - The question remains, however: Why bring it up with Ukraine? That's trickier. One possible explanation is that Trump believes that CrowdStrike has an anti-Russia, pro-Ukraine bias that muddied its investigation of the DNC breach.

September 27, 2019 - But, as Vice reported, turning over the physical server isn’t necessary (or the usual procedure) for forensic analyses, and it isn’t as useful as a copy of what was on the server at the time, which CrowdStrike provided to the FBI. And independent security experts and U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that Russia was behind the hack, using Crowdstrike’s evidence and more than what was found on one server. News peg: According to the whistleblower complaint released Thursday, Trump requested that “the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S.

November 26, 2019 - You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. That’s a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?” · The conspiracy appears to have metastasized. A light edit for coherence: Trump believes—and by all indications this is true belief, not posturing—that after the Democratic National Committee was hacked in 2016, the DNC gave a physical server to Ukrainian cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and refused to let the FBI see the evidence.

November 23, 2019 - CrowdStrike is the California-based cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC to investigate a breach that turned out to be a Russian hack aimed at sowing discord and disrupting the U.S.

August 4, 2025 - The Intelligence Community Assessment, published on January 6, 2017 also confirms that Russia was behind the DNC hack, stating on page 2 of the report: “In July 2015, Russian intelligence gained access to Democratic National Committee (DNC) networks and maintained that access until at least June 2016. This unclassified ODNI report was based on extensive classified intelligence collected by the CIA, NSA, and FBI; the ODNI determined the classified intelligence should not be released in order to protect the sensitive sources and methods by which it was collected.

March 4, 2020 - No, he was sure that there was no crime by Russia; the DNC, Crowdstrike, the FBI and others were attempting to make it seem like the Russians were hacking the DNC to help his election; and he wanted the Ukrainian president to help him prove ...

May 9, 2017 - Instead, whether because they were denied access or simply never asked for it, the FBI instead used the analysis of the DNC breach conducted by security firm CrowdStrike as the basis for its investigation.

September 29, 2019 - The US president was referring ... hired to respond to Russia's breach of its servers during the 2016 election. Trump's reference to "the server" relates to an unfounded conspiracy theory that the DNC hid an incriminating server from the FBI while the bureau was investigating Russia's hack, and that ...

September 25, 2019 - CrowdStrike later said it had provided all of its forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI, but as I argued previously, the DNC’s refusal to let the FBI investigate firsthand “served only to undermine confidence in the ultimate results of the investigation and give the impression of having something shameful to hide.

November 7, 2019 - The VIPS concluded that the DNC data theft was an inside job by someone with physical access to the server. After the DNC refused access to the DNC server the FBI agreed to accept the findings of CrowdStrike, the private cybersecurity firm hired ...

July 17, 2018 - And a close read of it all shows why Trump’s “DNC didn’t give the server to the FBI” conspiracy theory makes no sense. First off, CrowdStrike, the company the DNC brought in to initially investigate and remediate the hack, actually shared ...

February 17, 2020 - He told us the FBI didn't physically examine the DNC servers because CrowdStrike gave the bureau copies of the data from the servers.

January 6, 2017 - But the Bureau points the finger for its lack of independent evaluation squarely at the DNC. According to the FBI official, "This left the FBI no choice but to rely upon a third party for information.