Acccording researchers informations suggests there may have been a
group of Turkish hackers among those which conducted a cyber attack on
the White House.
Three White House staffers have had their personal Gmail accounts
breached in what appears to be a malicious operation directed at the
team responsible for the Obama administration's social media outreach,
according to individuals familiar with the incident.
The hackers had also gathered these three individuals’ usernames and passwords.An activists known as SeRDaR is being suspected.
Sources familiar with the Gmail hack say the ploy is unique in the
White House. In the past, one or two staffers who used two-step
authentication to protect their Gmail accounts would receive text
messages, indicating someone had entered the correct password to trigger
the text authentication code.
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