From the moment Wikileaks started publishing the true Democrat emails the Democrats have been claiming the RUSSIANS are behind this. FROM DAY ONE!!
How did they know? They didn’t know. They created a meme and the MSM has dutifully fallen in behind them on it. Even the “17 intelligence agencies” BS keeps being repeated.
Can the Russians be behind this? Sure they can. Just today another breach was blamed on the Chinese so the pitiful state of US cybersecurity pretty much means any kindergarten agency can break their way into anything.
However, the only thing they Democrats are concerned with here is PODESTA and the DNC. Two ... private ... organizations.
Podesta is just stupid. Well, I guess the DNC too.
The FTC has only prosecuted about 10 companies or individuals a year for illegal robocalls, although millions of those calls are made every month, and just about everyone has received calls from phone scammers. The FTC and other government organizations claim they cannot find the scammers because they use IP phones and are located overseas.
Tracking down garden variety internet hackers is even harder, as anyone who has tried to do so knows. Tor networks, VPNs, bot nets, and various IP forwarding and web redirection schemes make it very hard to identify the original source of an attack.
Given the poor security of the DNC, and Podesta's admission that he fell for a phishing email, there were probably multiple groups of hackers running around reading their emails. Along with DNC insiders and disgruntled Sanders supporters.
In any hacking it isn't uncommon to find Eastern European IP addresses or toolkits involved. But that is about as accurate an indication of the actual source as deciding that because you heard the lawn crew next door speaking Spanish the neighbors must be the new ambassador from Spain.