The Hacking Chronicles: George Soros, NATO Join The Assaulted DNC

A viewpoint: things are becoming quite interesting in the hacking department. Accusations, twists, deceit, and suspects abound. The one thing we know is that hacking DID occur. However, it is turning into a "whodunit" and why. This reads like mystery/spy thriller--sort of.  
George Soros, NATO Allegedly Hacked By "Russians"

by Tyler Durden

Aug 11, 2016 7:15 PM

Step aside Democratic party: according to the latest official conspiracy theory promoted by the media, in addition to the DNC, unknown hackers managed to penetrate both the server of retired former top NATO general, Philip Breedlove as well as that of George Soros, the prominent billionaire supporter behind Hillary Clinton's campaign. Only the people are not "unknown", as the media already has its pre-determined narrative : they are, of course, Russians.

How do we know it was the Russians?

Well we don't, but according to "security experts" cited by Bloomberg, the site behind the hacks, DCLeaks.com, "with its spiffy capitol-dome logo", shows the marks of the same Russian intelligence outfit that targeted the Democratic political organizations. Supposedly these are the same "experts" who concluded just hours after the infamous Wikileaks release of 20,000 Democratic emails, that it was the Russians who were behind that particular hack too.

More unsubstantiated details:

Describing itself as the work of American hacktivists, DCLeaks.com was registered in April, and many of the documents were posted in early June. A DCLeaks administrator, who identified himself by e-mail as Steve Wanders, didn’t respond to written questions, including why much of the material focuses on Russia or Russian foreign-policy interests.

The site seems designed to cater to the U.S. media’s voracious appetites for leaks. It has related Twitter and Facebook accounts that push out nuggets from purloined documents and that suggest angles journalists might pursue.

The Russian government has dismissed the idea that it was involved in the hack of the Democratic National Committee, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said there’s “no proof whatsoever” that Moscow was involved.

Surely there has to be something more than merely circumstantial suggesting that this was a Russian group? The answer is no.

The leaks highlight the effectiveness of some of the hackers’ tricks, including the targeting of private e-mail accounts to gather sensitive military and political intelligence. DCLeaks also offers some insight for investigators on what appears to be the hackers’ early missteps and ad hoc approach. “It really looks like the hackers tried a couple of things that just weren’t really working before they hit on using WikiLeaks,” said John Hultquist, the manager of cyberespionage intelligence at FireEye Inc. “With this earlier stuff, it looks like they were experimenting.”

It gets better:

Security experts see links to a larger Russian information operation. That’s in part, according to two people familiar with the probe, because the e-mail addresses of Breedlove and Hamilton were among thousands targeted in a several-month campaign that began last fall by a Russian hacking group that cybersecurity firms have referred to by monikers including Fancy Bear, APT28 and the Sofacy Group.

And the punchline:

Cyberintelligence firms have linked that hacking group to the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, whose Moscow headquarters is nicknamed the Aquarium. Three private security groups have linked the DNC incursion to that group and another Russian hacking group associated with the FSB, the country’s civilian intelligence agency. U.S. intelligence agencies have told officials they believe the DNC hack was orchestrated by the Russian government.

So, according to the official narrative, we are supposed to believe that these "Russian hackers", part of the military intelligence service, managed to gather sensitive military and political intelligence, got inside a NATO general's server, penetrated Soros' email... yet were unable to get inside Hillary Clinton's DIY, unprotected home email server? Oh, and these intelligence assets were smart enough to do all this, but dumb enough to leave trails as being associated with other Russian hacking groups, knowing full well that when their trails was exposed, it would lead to a massive diplomatic scandal or worse.

Brilliant.