Dutch Intelligence Service WATCHED LIVE as Russian Hacker Group Cozy Bear Breached DNC Servers
This story broke in January of this year.
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BERLIN — The Dutch domestic intelligence service AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacking group Cozy Bear for at least a year starting in mid-2014, local media outlets reported Thursday. According to the reports, the Dutch government alerted the United States to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after Netherlands-based officials watched the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and other operations by the Russians, including a 2014 State Department hack.
The DNC hack, revealed by The Washington Post in June 2016, was considered a pivotal event in several actions believed to be undertaken by the Russian government to meddle in the U.S. presidential election that year. Two independent research firms later confirmed that the DNC’s network was compromised by Russian government hackers.
The Dutch agency’s involvement was first reported by the current affairs program Nieuwsuur and the newspaper de Volkskrant on Thursday. Reached by The Post on Friday, the domestic spy agency AIVD had no comment. The Dutch military intelligence service, MIVD, did not respond to a request for comment.
According to Dutch media, AIVD agents also watched when Russian hackers launched an attack on the State Department in 2014 and compromised unclassified systems at the White House as well as in Congress. Officials later told The Post that the NSA had been alerted to the hacks by an unnamed Western intelligence agency. The Western ally had previously hacked not only the Russians’ computers but also surveillance cameras inside their offices. The unnamed Western analysts were monitoring the hackers’ maneuvers inside U.S. networks and even collected CCTV footage of those involved.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/26/dutch-media-reveal-country-to-be-secret-u-s-ally-in-war-against-russian-hackers/?utm_term=.70dbbe97f45e
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There is no question that the Russians hacked the DNC. The Dutch hackers watched them do it LIVE using Cozy Bear's own surveillance cameras.
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What is up with our internet security? All these techie kids these days can't be harnessed to make our stuff more secure? Are we not funding it as much as Russia? I don't get how a country with a GDP the size of Texas can do this---and how warnings were ignored. This makes me sick. Of course, with Trump and the Repukes on board (shooting down funding for election security, etc.)...aka collusion...nothing will be done 
the tech giants, often run by loathsome "libertarians", have an interest in keeping Federal-level security measures low, in order to not "regulate" the internet???
coincidence I'm sure.
