Posted on 04/06/2019 8:14:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A former IT aide to New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan mounted an “extraordinarily extensive data-theft scheme” against the office, the culprit’s plea agreement states.
The plot included the installation of tiny “keylogging” devices that picked up every keystroke. Between July and October 2018, former IT aide Jackson Cosko worked with an unnamed accomplice, a then-current Hassan employee, who repeatedly lent him a key that he used to enter the office at night and who allegedly tried to destroy evidence for him.
Cosko accepted responsibility for the events revealed by federal prosecutors in court Friday.
A statement of facts that Cosko agreed to says that from July to October 2018, he “engaged in an extraordinarily extensive data-theft scheme, copying entire network drives, sorting and organizing sensitive data, and exploring ways to use that data to his benefit,” arranging it into folders such as “high value.”
The theft occurred after Cosko was fired from Hassan’s office in May 2018 for undisclosed reasons, then hired by Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, giving him access to the House computer network. (RELATED: Suspect In Kavanaugh Doxxing Downloaded ‘More Information Than Originally Understood)
“The defendant gained access to Senator Hassan’s Office by unlawfully obtaining keys from a staffer who was (at the time) still employed in the Office” and using it to repeatedly burglarize the office. He placed small, unobtrusive devices on at least six Senate computers that captured every keystroke, including usernames and passwords which he would then use to access further documents.
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Dhimmicraps do NOT believe in national security.
Oh, for Democrats like Martin Dies, Scoop Jackson, and even Joe Lieberman.
For those who don’t know....a keylogging device allows all security checks within a computer to be bypassed.
Passwords, account names, and email addresses , bank accounts all can be sent to an outside contact.
It is VERY difficult to track or detect.
It happened to a friend of mine.
Happened to me. Somebody snagged my email info, forwarded my email so I wouldn’t see any activity, changed my Amazon password and ordered $600 worth of phones to be delivered to my house while I was at work. Caught it in the nick of time. Now I NEVER type in a password. All my URLs, usernames and passwords for all my financial accounts are stored in KeePass and I copy and paste them rather than type them in.
That is the only way to defend against keyloggers.
Just proof no Democrat will ever be held accountable.
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