Source: Raphael Satter, Jeff Donn and Justin Myers, The Associated Press, November 2, 2017
WASHINGTON — The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defence contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by The Associated Press.
The list provides the most detailed forensic evidence yet of the close alignment between the hackers and the Russian government, exposing an operation that stretched back years and tried to break into the inboxes of 4,700 Gmail users across the globe — from the pope’s representative in Kyiv to the punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow.
Image Source: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview in Paris, France on Monday, May 29, 2017. (Alexei Nikolsky / Sputnik)
