According to preliminary data, the hackers tried to obtain information about the sponsors of the Democratic party.
The Federal Bureau of investigation, the U.S. is investigating a new hacking attempt Committee Congressional Democratic party.
Reuters sources familiar with the situation, said that the hacking attempt could be related to intention to get information about the sponsors of the party.
According to initial information, at the beginning of June 2016 was developed a web page, which is the double of the main site. While the whole Internet traffic on donations to be forwarded to this site.
IP address of website-double was similar to those that used one of a group of hackers carried out a cyber attack on the mail server of the National Committee of the US Democratic party (DNC). This attack led to a political scandal. The website WikiLeaks published the correspondence of the party leadership, which, although supposed to be neutral toward presidential candidates, criticized Bernie Sanders and favored Hillary Clinton.
Experts and politicians do not exclude that both attacks are hackers associated with Russia. Representatives of the Committee on elections refused to comment on the fact of cyber attacks.
