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A new report reveals that a digital hit list attributed to Russian hackers contained extensive targets far beyond the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
The digital hit list revealed that a hacking group known as Fancy Bear — which experts have long believed was connected to the Russian government — tried to use its phishing operation to break into roughly 4,700 Gmail inboxes worldwide, according to the Associated Press. The targets ranged from American policymakers like Secretary of State John Kerry and former Secretary of State Colin Powell to a political magazine in Armenia, adversaries of Russian separatists in …read more
Source: Salon
