>leaks that targeted a single party and candidate? Is there any evidence to suggest that the DNC was singled out for attack? We should be careful not to fall

>leaks that targeted a single party and candidate? Is there any evidence to suggest that the DNC was singled out for attack? We should be careful not to fall victim to pernicious media spin. The claims laid out in the Grizzly Steppe report are very specific: 1. In summer 2015, an APT29 spearphishing campaign directed emails containing a malicious link ... 2. ...to over 1,000 recipients, including multiple U.S. Government victims. 3. In the course of that campaign, APT29 successfully compromised a U.S. political party. We know in retrospect that the compromised party was the DNC, but the claims presented do not indicate that the DNC was the only target. Although this is how good boys and girls are supposed to interpret the evidence, since many news media sources are spinning this as "Russia hacked the electoral process for a Trump victory", we can't start from that conclusion and work backward. Claim #2 in particular seems to indicate that the attack was broad and indiscriminate, with government and non-government targets alike. Consider also what isn't said in this report. If they could say that the hacker groups singled out the DNC for attack, they would say so. That no such claim is made indicates that the authors know otherwise. Finally, we have this: 4. In spring 2016, APT28 compromised the same political party, again via targeted spearphishing. This is a separate group from the one in the previous claims. What they do not speak to is the question of who else was attacked or compromised. Intelligence and counterintelligence is an endless game of cat and mouse that has been played for millenia. Any indication you can glean on who the next leader of the world's #1 power will be is priceless information, so none of us should be the least bit surprised that any of this is going on or that political parties would be the target of hacking attempts in an election year, by Russia, or any other nation. Russia putting a targeted hit only on the DNC to swing the election specifically in favor of one candidate is an extraordinary claim and this report doesn't clear the bar IMHO. A far more likely hypothesis is that all renowned political organizations are a target for hacking at all times, and the DNC just had shitty security and got compromised. Too bad. Maybe turn on 2FA next time, and stop storing Top Secret material on your home server. (Even my little unknown personal server gets thousands of login attempts from China every day.)