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  • FBI gave heads-up to fraction of Russian hackers' US targets

    11/26/2017 2:06:38 PM PST · by usar91B · 35 replies
    Associated Press / Yahoo ^ | November 26, 2017 | RAPHAEL SATTER, JEFF DONN and DESMOND BUTLER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin's crosshairs, The Associated Press has found. Nearly 80 interviews with Americans targeted by Fancy Bear, a Russian government-aligned cyberespionage group, turned up only two cases in which the FBI had provided a heads-up. Even senior policymakers discovered they were targets only when the AP told them, a situation some described as bizarre and dispiriting. "It's utterly confounding," said Philip Reiner, a...