I have read a bunch of stuff about this including the .pdf Intel Report. Observations:
The Intel report says whoever hacked the DNC was in there for around a year. I believe this was a hack since it wasn’t just one person’s emails but the entire account that was leaked to WikiLeaks and other outlets.
Podesta’s email leak was a phishing scheme but his stupidity pretty much begged for someone to get into his account (PASSWORD = PASSWORD).
But the rest of the stuff in the Intel report says that Russia used news outlets to post disparaging comments about Hitlery.
Now the theory here is that all of us dumb alt-right (whatever that is) white males didn’t have a bad opinion of Hitlery until the Russians started planting fake news stories.
I don’t know about you all but I had a bad opinion about Hitlery when she became first lady and there wasn’t one story I read on RT or sputnick that had any effect on my opinion about her. I will admit I can’t recall reading many if any on those sites.
The real bottom line is the DNC got hacked, Podesta was stupid and Hillary was such a crappy candidate the even the Russians hater her!
Did they name 'one' news outlet? The US mass media is the advertising arm of the DNC. They had Hillry's crowning all locked up, until 'we the people' voted.