The news agency spread information about an attempt to hack the accounts of several branches of the Democratic Party.
According to information received by reporters from unnamed sources, the incidents occurred in the states of California and Indiana. Reuters reports that think tanks in Washington and New York were attacked by hackers. This is the Center for American Progress, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The hacking attempt on the eve of the presidential election in the United States was carried out by the hacker group Fancy Bear, the agency reports. The organization has been operating since 2004, in America its activities are associated with Russian military intelligence. The authors of the report emphasized that hacking attempts indicate that the Russian special services are targeting the United States on the eve of the elections to be held on November 3.
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