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....

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 15, 2020 - He told Congress that CrowdStrike provided "a couple of actual digital images" of DNC hard drives, out of a total number of "in excess of 10, I think." In other cases, Henry said, CrowdStrike provided its own assessment of them. The firm, he said, provided "the results of our analysis based on what our technology went out and collected." This disclosure follows revelations from the case of Trump operative Roger Stone that CrowdStrike provided three reports to the FBI in redacted and draft form.

December 5, 2019 - But the FBI felt it was not necessary ... servers, as agents were able to obtain complete copies of forensic images made by CrowdStrike, which first identified that the DNC had been hacked by Russian operatives....

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.

Here's what the DNC did: It hired CrowdStrike, one of the world's most respected incident response firms, to investigate the intrusion, boot out hackers and get its systems up and running again as quickly as possible.

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 ...

September 25, 2024 - Kenn White, a security expert and former DHS adviser, agreed that the FBI wouldn’t have expected direct access to DNC’s computers, “The FBI had one of the best cyber security firms in the world giving them forensics, and going in depth and reverse engineering to the byte level these implants and turning it over.” · In some versions of the servergate conspiracy theory now espoused by Trump, nothing less than physical possession of the hardware will suffice, because Crowdstrike, a respected security firm helmed by a former senior FBI agent, might be part of the deep state’s efforts to frame Putin.