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Tolu Wade Senior Software Engineer | Cybersecurity Expert @ FiatMatch Inc
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In Technology • 1 min read • Jun 10, 2022 12:50p.m.
How Hillary Clinton’s Aides Got hacked by Phishing And Lost Her The Election
Firstly I would like to explain what Phishing really is, an aspect under social engineering that involves when a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone, or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking, credit card details, and passwords. The information is then used to access important accounts and can result in identity theft and financial loss. So Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you definitely know why Hillary Clinton lost the US election to Donald Trump. One of the biggest scandals of the decade was Hillary Clinton's leaked emails. Do you know how that happened? John Podesta was phished. Yes, the chairman of Hilary Clinton's campaign fell prey to a phishing attack. He received a suspicious email and wanted to flag it, but he made a typo. when forwarding the phishing email to a computer technician, he wrote "This is a legitimate email' instead of "illegitimate"'. This gave hackers from Russia access to about 60,000 emails from Podesta's private Gmail account. They stole all that data, gave it to Wikileaks, and the rest is actual history. "The FBI's laid-back approach meant that Russian hackers were able to roam inside the DNC's computer systems for almost seven months before Democratic officials finally realized the gravity of the attack and brought in external cybersecurity experts." But it is too late, as the election results have shown.
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