Cyber attacks against the United States Russia: it became known as Moscow gave the data to WikiLeaks – Browser

the Russian side gave WikiLeaks data that has been obtained as a result of a hacker attack on the servers of the National Committee of the US Democratic party, through a third party.

About this Reuters said three American officials, noting that on this occasion there is conclusive evidence.

Information about the intervention of the representatives of the Russian Federation in the election process, will be presented by US intelligence to us President Barack Obama on Thursday, January 5, and the next day his successor Donald Trump.

the content of the report is still under discussion.

“After the elections, the intelligence service gave the Obama administration more certainty regarding the full role of the Russian government in the cyber attack and leaked documents than 7 October 2016, when U.S. intelligence agencies said they were “confident” that Russia had organized the cyber attack”, – notes the Agency.

the Interlocutors, the media refused to disclose information about the involvement of a third party in the transfer of data to WikiLeaks, saying that they do not want to make public how the US government got this information.

Earlier in an interview with Fox News WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he had not received a letter from the servers of the National Committee of the democratic party, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her chief of staff John Podestà, from any country. However, he did not rule out that the information came to him from a third party.

Reuters notes that the US President-elect Donald trump is on the side of Assange. So, on Wednesday he questioned the conclusions of US intelligence that Russia was trying to help his candidacy and hurt Clinton in the last election.

As reported by the “observer”, December 29, 2016, President Barack Obama imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation in connection with hacker attacks on U.S. government servers.

the Restrictions were imposed against officers of the Federal security service (FSB) and Main intelligence Directorate of the General staff of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation.

in addition, Washington has decided to send from USA 35 Russian diplomats, as well as to close two residential complex for diplomats in the States of new York and Maryland.