another sophisticated hacking group attributed to the russian federation, nicknamed cozy bear, was also present in the dnc's servers at the same time. however the two groups each appeared to be unaware of the other, as each independently stole the same passwords and otherwise duplicated their efforts. cozy bear appears to be a different agency, one more interested in traditional long-term espionage. a crowdstrike forensic team determined that while cozy bear had been on the dnc's network for over a year, fancy bear had only been there a few weeks.