NRCC emails hacked before 2018 midterm elections
by Naomi Lim
| December 04, 2018 12:31 PM
The campaign body for House Republicans was hacked ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, putting at risk sensitive information exchanged by top party officials via email before the elections.
The email accounts of four senior National Republican Congressional Committee aides were compromised for months before the breaches were detected in April by a security services contractor that monitors its network, Politico reported Tuesday. While the party's leadership team in the House and its rank-and-file members were not informed of the intrusion, NRCC launched an investigation, and the FBI was alerted.
Party officials did not tell the news outlet when the hack started, nor who they believe was behind the attack, but they said donor information remained protected. They added that none of the details discussed in the compromised emails has so far been made public. Politico reported that in private, these officials did indicate they believed a foreign intruder was behind the attack.
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