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Brian4Liberty
06-08-2018, 03:13 PM
Key Evidence in House Hacking Probe Mysteriously Disappeared (https://www.theepochtimes.com/key-evidence-in-house-hacking-probe-mysteriously-disappeared_2554276.html)
By Jasper Fakkert - June 7, 2018


A server belonging to the House Democratic Caucus went missing in early 2017 after it had been identified by the inspector general as a key piece of evidence in a hacking probe.
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The inspector general also warned of the risk that the server could be used as a repository to store documents “taken from other offices or evidence of other illicit activity.”

The investigation had uncovered Dropbox accounts installed on at least two Democratic Caucus computers used by the IT workers, against House IT policy.

The two accounts associated with the Dropbox accounts on the computers each contained thousands of files.

“We have not been permitted to view content of the files on these workstations. However, based on the file names, some of the information is likely sensitive,” the presentation says.

The inspector general also warned House leadership that the accounts could have been used to exfiltrate information.

“While file-sharing sites, such as Dropbox, have legitimate business purposes, use of such sites is also a classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization.”

Server Goes Missing
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The Democratic Caucus server, which had been identified by the inspector general as ground zero of the suspicious activity, had disappeared at that time.

Three senior government officials with knowledge of the situation told the Daily Caller News Foundation last year that it had been physically stolen.

The server had disappeared just weeks before Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), who was the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, left his position to become California’s attorney general.

Police had informed Becerra that the server was the subject of an investigation and had requested a copy of it, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported last year, based on an account from a senior official.

The official also said that the police were provided with an elaborate falsified image of the server.
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timosman
06-08-2018, 03:16 PM
exfiltrate - newspeak for share? :cool: