Email invaders failed as they
had tried at least five times to trick US presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton but failed due to security.
The hackers were linked to
Russia while she was secretary of state, newly released emails showed details.
The sixty-seven -year-old
received the virus-riddled emails, which were disguised as speeding tickets
from New York state, on 3 August, 2011.
The emails instructed
recipients to print attached tickets, and when they were opened would have
allowed hackers to take control of a victim's computer.
Security researchers who
analysed the malicious software in September 2011 said that infected computers
would transmit information to at least three server computers overseas,
including one in Russia.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman
for Mrs Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign, said: "We have no
evidence to suggest she replied to this email or that she opened the
attachment.
"As we have said
before, there is no evidence that the system was ever breached. All these
emails show is that, like millions of other Americans, she received spam."
Most people are bombarded
by spam or virus-infected messages on a daily basis.
But these messages show
hackers knew Mrs Clinton's private email address, and sent her fake traffic
tickets from the state where she lives.
The email misspelled the
city Chatham, where the speeding infringement was supposed to come from, and
came from a supposed New York City government account.
No comments:
Post a Comment