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Awan Family Had Access to Emails of 59 House Democrats

By Jasper Fakkert

Comments June 10, 2018 Updated: June 14, 2018

 

Former congressional IT aides at the heart of a hacking scandal that has been brewing since September 2016 had access to the congressional email systems of at least 59 House Democrats.

 

The House Office of Inspector General discovered in 2016 that five IT aides had made thousands of suspicious logins to congressional servers and had transferred large amounts of data using Dropbox accounts.

 

Imran Awan, a naturalized Pakistani national, first began working for Congress in 2000 as an IT contractor and was hired by five House Democrats in 2004.

 

According to a briefing provided to House leadership in September 2016, the five shared IT workers, Imran Awan, Abid Awan, Hina Alvi Awan, Jamal Awan, and Rao Abbas, had “collectively logged into 15 member offices and the Democratic Caucus, although they were not employed by the offices they accessed.”

 

This access was in addition to the legitimate access they were given by the 44 members of the House that employed them.

 

This means that the IT aides were able to access the personal data, including emails, of at least 59 House Democrats. Other data stored on the congressional servers were the representatives’ calendars, personal files, and constituents’ data.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/awan-family-had-access-to-emails-of-59-house-democrats_2557062.html