{"id":7044,"date":"2019-02-02T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/russian-hackers-stole-mueller-inquiry-evidence\/"},"modified":"2019-02-02T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:13:50","slug":"russian-hackers-stole-mueller-inquiry-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/russian-hackers-stole-mueller-inquiry-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian hackers &#8216;stole Mueller inquiry evidence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/84DA\/production\/_100901043_046083424-1.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">EPA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Russia has been accused of carrying out cyber-attacks across the globe, which it denies<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Russian hackers stole and then misrepresented evidence connected to the continuing prosecution of Russian companies accused of leading a propaganda campaign to influence the 2016 US election, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user @HackingRedstone had broken into a Russian server in October, the court heard. <\/p>\n<p>And they had then posted a link to an online file-sharing portal that they had said had contained special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s documents about &#8220;the IRA and Russian collusion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The IRA (Internet Research Agency) is one of three Russian companies accused in February 2018, alongside 13 individuals, of interfering to help Donald Trump win the election.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Kremlin and President Trump deny any collusion.<\/p>\n<p>The court document alleged the Twitter post had said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got access to the special counsel Mueller&#8217;s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But, according to prosecutors in the case, the data that was linked to had been &#8220;altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the US political system&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Russian companies that have been charged are Concord Management and Consulting LLC and Concord Catering.<\/p>\n<p>And Reuters reported that a journalist had received a message from a hacker claiming to have hacked a Russian legal firm that had received the evidence from Concord&#8217;s US law firm, Reed Smith LLP.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47073263\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright EPA Image caption Russia has been accused of carrying out cyber-attacks across the globe, which it denies Russian hackers stole and then misrepresented evidence connected to the continuing prosecution of Russian companies accused of leading a propaganda campaign to influence the 2016 US election, a court has heard. 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