Clinton campaign hacked as part of cyber attack on Democrats

A computer network used by US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organisations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters yesterday, follows two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, and the party's fundraising committee for candidates for the US House of Representatives. A Clinton campaign spokesman said in a statement late yesterday that an analytics data program maintained by the DNC and used by the campaign and a number of other entities "was accessed as part of the DNC hack." "Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised," said Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill. Later, a campaign official said hackers had access to the analytics program's server for approximately five days. The analytics data program is one of many systems the campaign accesses to conduct voter analysis, and does not include social security numbers or credit card numbers, the official said. The U.S. Department of...

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