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DNC Says Reported Hack Attempt Was a False Alarm

Committee was hacked by Russian intelligence in 2016 campaign

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By Dustin Volz

Updated Aug. 23, 2018 8:52 a.m. ET

A suspected attempt to hack into the Democratic National Committee’s voter database was actually a cybersecurity test, the organization said.

The DNC, which was hacked by Russian intelligence officers during the 2016 presidential campaign, said Tuesday it had contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation after being alerted to an apparent phishing scheme by the computer security firm Lookout Inc., which uncovered a replica of the login page to the DNC’s Votebuilder database during an online scan.

In a statement early Wednesday, Bob Lord, the DNC’s chief information security officer, said the DNC and its partners who reported the site “now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated phishing test.”

The test mimicked attributes of a real attack on the committee’s voter database but wasn’t authorized by the DNC, Mr. Lord said.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/dnc-says-reported-hack-attempt-was-a-false-alarm-1535028628