FTA (Wired)
One question had been answered: there was definitely someone rummaging around the DNC servers. But who? CrowdStrike checked its records, seeing whether the methods used for the hack matched any they already had on record. They did. Two groups, working independently, were secreting away information, including private correspondence, email databases and, reportedly, opposition research files on Donald Trump. “We realised that these actors were very well known to us,” Alperovitch says. This is because of a handful of small but significant tells: data exfiltrated to an IP address associated with the hackers; a misspelled URL; and time zones related to Moscow. “They were called FANCY BEAR and COZY BEAR, and we could attribute them to the Russian government.”
Both the groups had a long rap sheet. COZY BEAR - which had been inside the DNC’s system since the summer of 2015 - had previously hacked the White House and the US State Department. FANCY BEAR - which had breached the network separately in April 2016 - had hacked victims across the world, including the German Bundestag.
2015 September — Josh Uretsky joins Bernie campaign as national data director, recommended by Seth Rich (according to Sanders in a Dec 2015 interview). October 2015 — Clinton Email Testimony December 2015 — /u/stonetear is given the project of creating weekly reports of emails being sent or received over a certain size; again goes to Reddit.
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That’s from the Wikileaks summary page /crowd sourced.
If you remember, Bernie was blasted by the DNC, Hillary, media for accessing files at the DNC. This was done by Seth’s buddy who was then fired.
Yet another strong MOTIVE for Seth to leak.
He had access as head of IT for the DNC.
He had motive - he was a Bernie supporter and the DNC was fixing things against Bernie. His friend he recommended for a job just was fired and nationally disgraced for accessing DNC files Bernie was supposed to be approved to access. Small world of politics, that guy was out of a job and possibly career.
Now we see CrowdStrike refer to “Panda” as the hacker, a name frequently used by Seth.
I hope the Special Counsel investigating the Russians directs his attention the DNC servers and finds out what took place.