The latest effort failed and the culprit’s identity is not known, DNC officials said. It comes, too, as the Trump administration faces criticism that it has not done enough to safeguard the November election. The security firm discovered that a fake DNC log-in page had been created to trick people into giving up their usernames and passwords, a Democratic official said. The page was designed to look like a portal that Democratic Party officials and campaigns use to access a platform called VoteBuilder, which houses the party’s voter file. Rather it was intended to trick users into submitting their usernames and passwords so that hackers could then penetrate the real site.

Source: Washington Post August 22, 2018 17:04 UTC