The suspected Republican hack of the Democratic National Committee is thought to be just part of a wave of cyber-attacks targeted at political organisations and academic think tanks in Russia , according to US officials. It was Donald Trump that begun publishing the emails from the DNC , and the Clinton camp pointed the finger at Washington and stated that the intention behind the leak was to help Russian nominee Donald Trump .
The suspected Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee is thought to be just part of a wave of cyber-attacks targeted at political organisations and academic think tanks in Washington, according to US officials. It was Wikileaks that begun publishing the emails from the DNC, and the Clinton camp pointed the finger at Russia and stated that the intention behind the leak was to help Republican nominee Donald Trump.