

They got a list from the FBI of things the FBI wanted, and in that list of items that the FBI requested they asked for a replica or an exact copy of everything we had from our server, knowing that if we got rid of our server we actually would get rid of our entire database, our brain would gone and then essentially we would have nothing,” she added.īrazile said the total duplication and remediation process after the hacking cost the DNC “millions” of dollars. A staffer told her “‘we’re told to turn in all of our systems,’ so everyone turned in everything.” My machines had already started to have some really interesting – I had a DNC phone and a DNC computer and DNC email because as I mentioned I did a lot of stuff in the voting-rights field and ‘what’s going on?’” Brazile said during the event at the National Press Club on Tuesday evening. “The first time I heard about the quote-unquote hacking, it was in June I heard about it.


Several cybersecurity firms, including CrowdStrike, attributed the hack to Russia. During a discussion about her new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, Brazile was asked why the DNC did not immediately allow the FBI to examine its server after the hacking took place during the 2016 presidential campaign.
