Is Russia Behind the DNC Email Hack?

Evidence points to yes.

As the juicy, position-felling tidits of the DNC email hack were processed over the weekend, a suspicion over who was behind the hack gained traction, and evidence, as we headed into Monday: It was Russian hackers who broke into the DNC’s email servers and then passed on about 19,000 emails to WikiLeaks, which then released the emails right before the start of the Democratic National Convention. The timing, according to Wikileaks’ Twitter account, had to do with the speed of their ability to verify “as fast as resources permitted.”

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