The plot to hack America
Subtitle: how Putin's cyberspies and WikiLeaks tried to steal the 2016 election
By: Malcolm Nance
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781510723320
Subjects: Politics and government; Hacktivism; Election; Presidents; Political campaigns; History
Other titles: How Putin's cyberspies and WikiLeaks tried to steal the 2016 election
Description: The thrilling true story of how Putin's spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, used the promise of power and influence to cultivate Trump as well as his closest aides, the Kremlin Crew, to become unwitting assets of the Russian government. In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organizations computer servers. The FBI found that more than twenty-five state election offices had their voter registration systems probed or attacked by the same hackers. The hack was tracked to Russian spy agencies and the stolen information channeled to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The goal of the attack: to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-186).
Table of contents: title: Watergate 2.0; title: Suspicions of something more sinister; title: The spymaster-in-chief; title: Trump's agents, Putin's assets; title: Operation LUCKY-7: the Kremlin plan to elect a president; title: Battles of the CYBER BEARS; title: WikiLeaks: Russia's intelligence laundromat; title: When CYBER BEARS attack; title: Cyberwar to defend democracy.