title: breaking fbi reopens investigation into clinton emails
text: the email that got john podesta hacked latest wikileaks dump reveals phishing email that compromised podesta mikael thalen  october   comments 
  the email that lead to the hack of clinton campaign chairman john podestas gmail account was published online friday by wikileaks 
  the malicious march  email which claims to be from google asked podesta to change his password due to unauthorized access from an ip address in the ukraine 
  clinton campaign staff members who viewed the email were convinced it was genuine clinton insider sara latham argued the gmail one is real while even clinton campaign it specialist charles delavan said this is a legitimate email 
  the first suspicious aspect of the email unnoticed by the clinton camp was the bitly password reset link bitly a website that shortens long web addresses would not be found in an official email from google 
  as first reported by motherboard earlier this month examination of the bitly link that redirected podesta to a fake google webpage also contained several red flags 
  the bitly link helped hide not only the fact that the landing page ended in tk instead of com but that the web page itself failed to use https encryption such links were also likely used to fool googles spam filters 
  prior analysis of the phishing link by cybersecurity group secureworks revealed the hackers also made a significant operation security mistake  they failed to make their two bitly accounts private 
  the public accounts revealed the hackers had created  similar links to use against  gmail accounts between october  and may  
  secureworks notes that the targets included individuals in russia and the former soviet states current and former military and government personnel in the us and europe individuals working in the defense and government supply chain and authors and journalists 
  accounts linked to the  election were also in the hackers sights 
  specific targets include staff working for or associated with hillary clintons presidential campaign and the democratic national committee dnc including individuals managing clintons communications travel campaign finances and advising her on policy 
  thomas rid a professor at kings college displayed on twitter how decoding the phishing links could reveal the specific emails being targeted 
  click to enlarge interestingly former secretary of state colin powell whose emails were released by the website dcleaks in september was also targeted by the same hackers 
  click to enlarge this connection suggests the hackers who provided wikileaks with the podesta emails and dcleaks with the powell emails are likely one in the same the bitly accounts are also behind the malicious email sent to retired fourstar general philip mark breedlove  whose emails appeared on dcleaks in april 
  numerous cybersecurity groups have accused the russian government of being responsible not only for the above election season hacks but for creating dcleaks and guccifer  to disseminate the data the us government also publicly blamed russia on october  just one week before the cia was tasked with preparing a possible retaliatory  cyber strike  
  russian president vladimir putin has denied involvement arguing that the contents of the hacks are far more important than who is responsible 
  listen does it even matter who hacked this data putin said on september  the important thing is the content that was given to the public 
  putin again dismissed us hysteria concerning the hacks on thursday during an annual speech at the valdai discussion club in sochi 
  hysteria has been whipped up in the united states about the influence of russia over the us presidential election he said its much simpler to distract people with socalled russian hackers spies and agents of influence does anyone really think that russia could influence the american peoples choice in any way is america a banana republic or what america is a great power newsletter sign up get the latest breaking news  specials from alex jones and the infowars crew related articles