

But it said that in August 2016, Guccifer 2.0 opened a channel of communication with "a person who was in regular contact with senior members" of the Trump campaign. The charging document did not directly implicate any Americans.The indictment said the hackers also used Guccifer 2.0 to pass stolen emails along to WikiLeaks. In June, the Russians allegedly "staged and released" tens of thousands of hacked documents using Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks. and stole emails and other documents from the DCCC and DNC." Once they breached the network, the indictment said, the hackers "covertly monitored the computers of dozens of DCCC and DNC employees, implanting hundreds of files containing malicious computer code.


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