The Clinton Foundation was breached by hackers connected to the Russian government, according to a new report. The incident is separate from a breach of the Democratic National Committee announced last week.
The hack of the Clinton family’s nonprofit came as part of a broader campaign aimed at gathering data on more than 4,000 party officials, lawyers and foundations in the United States, according to unnamed officials who spoke with Bloomberg on Tuesday. The effort is thought to have lasted for about seven months, ending in mid-May.
Foundation spokesman Brian Cookstra said he had not been made aware of any breach.
Earlier in the day, a hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0” posted documents related to Hillary Clinton that were allegedly obtained from a year-long breach of the DNC’s networks. The documents included talking points the party instructed followers to use in defense of Clinton’s alleged misdeeds, in addition to a collection of negative press clippings.
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The DNC’s initial announcement that it had been hacked came last week, after security firm CrowdStrike discovered that it had been breached by hackers it said were linked to the Russian government. Since that time, three additional security firms have reportedly been added to work on the investigation: Palo Alto Networks, Fidelis Cybersecurity and FireEye.
FireEye in particular is known for defending against state-backed hackers, though experts have said that if the Russian government penetrated the DNC’s network, it’s likely that an unknown number of other hackers were able to do so as well. The U.S. Secret Service, FBI and NSA have additionally been reported to be involved, both in response to the hack of the DNC and the Clinton Foundation.
