News sources are making this into a political event, and they could be right. But the bottom line is that Russian actors have been actively trying to hack into places where they don't belong.
Thepatrioteagle.com describes how it was done in Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment:
The Russian tactics are strikingly similar to what American intelligence agencies say was Russia’s hacking of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign. In that case, once they had the emails, the Russians used trolls to spread and spin the material, and built an echo chamber to widen its effect.
Then, as now, the Russian hackers from a military intelligence unit known formerly as the G.R.U., and to private researchers by the alias “Fancy Bear,” used so-called phishing emails that appear designed to steal usernames and passwords, according to Area1, the Silicon Valley security firm that detected the hacking. In this instance, the hackers set up fake websites that mimicked sign-in pages of Burisma subsidiaries, and have been blasting Burisma employees with emails meant to look like they are coming from inside the company.
The hackers fooled some of them into handing over their login credentials, and managed to get inside one of Burisma’s servers, Area1 said.
So why would Russia want to hack Burisma? For information harmful to Joe Biden? If so, it's doubtful they wanted to help Trump. As one of the Democrat star impeachment witnesses said, Russians wasn't really trying to get Trump elected. They wanted to sow discord among our citizens and generate disgust with our governmental system. Whatever role Russia played, they got what they sought.
Any information they obtained that could hurt Biden would more likely be used against him should he become president.
Meanwhile, this sort of thing happens so frequently it seems negligent for any company not to have built in protection from phishing emails.
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Topic originally found at POLITICO Playbook: The Democratic primary just got real.
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1:45 PM 1/14/2020
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