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March 19, 2016·Government

John Podesta and DNC staff phished by fake Google security alerts in 2016

Hillary for America campaign and the Democratic National Committee · United States

On 19 March 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta received an email styled as a Google security alert warning that someone had his password and urging him to change it. The Bitly-shortened link led to a credential harvesting page controlled by Russian military intelligence. More than 50,000 of Podesta's emails were later published by WikiLeaks; similar spear phishing was used against DNC staff.

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Entry types: Incident, Campaign, Benchmark. Aggregate agency statistics are kept as benchmarks and are never summed into the counters. Methodology. Machine-readable version of this page: global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app/api/incidents?q=Fancy+Bear+%2F+APT28%2C+identified+in+the+July+2018+US+indictment+as+GRU+Unit+26165.