{"id":327799,"date":"2016-12-10T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/12\/09\/obama-opens-investigation-into-cyber-attacks-on-us-election\/21|21624320"},"modified":"2016-12-10T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:45:00","slug":"obama-opens-investigation-into-cyber-attacks-on-us-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/obama-opens-investigation-into-cyber-attacks-on-us-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama opens investigation into cyber attacks on US election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process&#8230; and to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders, to include the Congress,&#8221; Monaco said, according to <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The US intelligence community said in October that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/10\/07\/russia-dnc-state-elections-hack-us-says\/\">top Russian officials<\/a> were behind this year&#8217;s hacks of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/07\/22\/wikileaks-publishes-thousands-of-dnc-emails\/\">Democratic National Committee<\/a>, and the email accounts of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/10\/21\/evidence-ties-russia-to-podesta-and-powell-email-hacks\/\">John Podesta<\/a> and General Colin Powell. The attacks were intended to disrupt the election process, intelligence officials found. Russia has denied its involvement. However, the evidence against Russia is piling up: German intelligence officials this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/12\/08\/german-intel-russia-is-trying-to-destabilize-country\/\">accused Russia<\/a> of attempting to empower extremist groups in the country and hijack the political process across the EU via cyber attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/95a3ae9e4752ba8bb0631741f8e0bfc0\/204688015\/download.jpeg\" \/>President Barack Obama has ordered an investigation into cyber attacks and foreign influence during the 2016 US presidential election, Reuters reports. He&#039;s asking intelligence agencies to provide a report on the issue before he leaves office on Janu&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-327799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}