New York Times Hacked By Russians, FBI Probe Underway

Weeks after hacking the DNC, it would seem that Russia is at it again. The latest targets are American news organizations and publications, with the New York Times being one of the bigger names on the list. The hacking activities seemed to have spanned several months and have only recently been disclosed by government officials.

The FBI is already investigating the series of breaches, CNN reports, with the cooperation of other U.S. government agencies. So far, the prevailing theory involves Russian intelligence hacking the target news organizations in order to undermine the Democratic Party. Whether this is to prevent Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency or not is yet to be determined.

On the other hand, the Times is not exactly forthcoming with any details about the hacking incident, saying only that the employee emails have been outsourced to Google. When CNN reached out to Google and the FBI, neither organization opted to comment on the issue.

In any case, a Times representative by the name of Eileen Murphy told the new network that there have been no such breaches detected on their end.

"We are constantly monitoring our systems with the latest available intelligence and tools,” Murphy told CNN. “We have seen no evidence that any of our internal systems, including our systems in the Moscow bureau, have been breached or compromised.”

As The Huffington Post notes, hackers have also attempted to target the Republican Party in order to get relevant documents that could implicate significant figures in the group. However, the attempts were much less successful than with the party’s rival group, which then yielded practically no interesting information.

As with the DNC incident, however, it still isn’t clear that Russia or Russian elements even had anything to do with the breach as no definitive proof or confirmation from the Russian government has come out.