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Comey Says Russian Hacks Of RNC Were Of Older Email Domains

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

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Comey Says Russian Hacks Of RNC Were Of Older Email Domains

FBI Director James Comey. Photo: FBI

FBI Director James Comey told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the Russian government did attempt to hack computer networks of Republican organizations but that the evidence shows that Russia gained entry into older email “domains” of the Republican National Committee (RNC), not domains associated with the 2016 election campaign.“There was evidence that there was hacking directed at state level organizations, state level campaigns and the RNC but old domains of the RNC, that is email domains that they were…

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