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  • 2021-07-09 (xsd:date)
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  • including the Washington Post (en)
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  • Update, July 19, 2021: This story was updated to include multiple media outlets confirmed Bloomberg's earlier reporting on the RNC breach. On July 6, Bloomberg reported that a Russian intelligence-linked hacker group had breached computer systems used by the Republican National Committee. The attack, attributed to Cozy Bear, also known as APT 29, came around the same time as a wider Russia-linked ransomware attack on a U.S. technology firm, Kaseya VSA, that affected hundreds of American and European companies. No link between the two attacks has been reported.Bloomberg initially reported that an RNC spokesman had denied the breach had taken place. However, after the story was published, RNC chief of staff Richard Walters told the news agency that Symnex Corp., a California-based IT services contractor used by the RNC, had in fact been breached. The RNC did not say whether any data was stolen or otherwise compromised. Russia’s Foreign Ministry seized on the RNC’s initial denial of an attack, with the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. denying any involvement in the attack and questioning whether the RNC attack had taken place. "We paid attention to the publication by Bloomberg on July 6 about the alleged breach by ‘Russian government hackers’ of the computer systems of the Republican National Committee. We strongly reject such fabrications," Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency quoted the embassy as saying on July 7. The embassy added that the party itself denied the fact of a cyber attack" and "there is no evidence that the attack took place (en)
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