Rod Rosenstein Announces Indictment of 12 Russians for Hacking the DNC

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ROSENSTEIN: "One of those defendants, and a twelfth Russian military officer, are charged with conspiring to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administrating including state boards of election, secretaries of state, and companies that supply software used to administer elections. According to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the Russian general staff known as the GRU. The units engaged in active cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. There was one unit that engaged in active cyber operations by stealing information and a different unit that was responsible for disseminating the stolen information. The defendants used two techniques to steal information."