Russian hackers stole and then misrepresented evidence connected to the continuing prosecution of Russian companies accused of leading a propaganda campaign to influence the 2016 US election, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Twitter user @HackingRedstone had broken into a Russian server in October, the court heard.<\/p>\n
And they had then posted a link to an online file-sharing portal that they had said had contained special counsel Robert Mueller’s documents about “the IRA and Russian collusion”.<\/p>\n
The IRA (Internet Research Agency) is one of three Russian companies accused in February 2018, alongside 13 individuals, of interfering to help Donald Trump win the election.<\/p>\n
Both the Kremlin and President Trump deny any collusion.<\/p>\n
The court document alleged the Twitter post had said: “We’ve got access to the special counsel Mueller’s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case.”<\/p>\n
But, according to prosecutors in the case, the data that was linked to had been “altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the US political system”.<\/p>\n
The two other Russian companies that have been charged Concord Management and Consulting LLC and Concord Catering.<\/p>\n
And Reuters reported that a journalist had received a message from a hacker claiming to have hacked a Russian legal firm that had received the evidence from Concord’s US law firm, Reed Smith LLP.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"