That DNC Hacking Attempt? It Was A FALSE ALARM

UUUGH.

How much press do you think THIS will get compared to the ORIGINAL story?

Everyone was losing their damn MINDS when it was reported that there had been a major hacking attempt of the DNC’s voter database.

GUESS WHAT.

IT WAS A FALSE ALARM…an embarrassing one, at that.

I feel that the following information, as well as the picture above, is best set to this music:

(If you get it, we can be friends)

ANYWAY

According to the Wall Street Journal:

A suspected attempt to hack into the Democratic National Committee’s voter database was actually a cybersecurity test, the organization said.

The DNC, which was hacked by Russian intelligence officers during the 2016 presidential campaign, said Tuesday it had contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation after being alerted to an apparent phishing scheme by the computer security firm Lookout Inc., which uncovered a replica of the login page to the DNC’s VoteBuilder database during an online scan.

THE RUUUUUSSIANS OMG.

Only… not.

In a statement early Wednesday, Bob Lord, the DNC’s chief information security officer, said the DNC and its partners who reported the site “now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated phishing test.”

The test mimicked attributes of a real attack on the committee’s voter database but wasn’t authorized by the DNC, Mr. Lord said.

FFS.

This was the equivalent of LOSING YOUR MIND at a tornado drill.

And again… now that everyone has pushed their little “THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!” narrative onto this one… do you think ANYONE will pay attention to the Dem’s little flub?

Doubt it.

“There are constant attempts to hack the DNC and our Democratic infrastructure, and while we are extremely relieved that this wasn’t an attempted intrusion by a foreign adversary, this incident is further proof that we need to continue to be vigilant in the light of potential attacks,” Mr. Lord said.

VoteBuilder is a system used by the Democratic Party and associated campaigns to collect voter data and track other campaign activities.

The DNC didn’t immediately say how it determined the incident was a test or who had conducted the test.

They probably called their tech guy or something…which is what they should have done BEFORE calling the freaking FBI! …but who’s shocked?

One person familiar with the matter said the test site was created at the request of the Michigan Democratic Party by DigiDems, a volunteer group of technology experts that does work for the Democratic Party. The DNC wasn’t notified of the test, which led to the confusion over the spoofed site’s origin, this person said.

The Michigan Democratic Party and DigiDems couldn’t be immediately reached for comment.

Of course they couldn’t.

We probably won’t get much more info on this, since the Dems are now busy sweeping it all under the rug.

They’d much rather have you believe they were actually hacked, and never talk of it again…