Accuracy in Media

Losing Campaign Managers Form Anti-Election Hacking Team at Harvard University

Losing campaign managers for two electoral campaigns formed a joint effort to combat election hacking. Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, and Hillary Clinton’s manager, Robby Mook, have formed a group to combat possible election hacking by the likes of Russia. The project will be headquartered at Harvard University under the name “Defending Digital […]

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Oops: CNN Used Video Game Footage in Segment about Hacking

CNN used an image from the popular game series known as Fallout, a game where the player is in a post-apocalyptic world after nuclear war hits the United States homeland. That’s embarrassing, CNN: In a video from December 30, 2016, CNN used footage from Fallout’s hacking mini-game as B-roll to illustrate reports of recent, real-life hacks […]

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Very Ironic: Obama Administration Blames Liberal Media for Ignoring Russia Hacking and Focusing on Leaked Documents

From NBC News’ piece questioning why Obama wasn’t strong with Russia on hacking allegations: An administration official, in turn, criticized the news media for focusing more on the leaked documents than on the Russian covert operation that hacked into political entities to steal the documents. Administration officials pointed out that the day the intelligence assessment […]

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Russian Government Hackers Got Into DNC’s Database

Holy (crap)! That’s quite a hack: Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach. The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that […]

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August 2017

8/28/2017 - Losing Campaign Managers Form Anti-Election Hacking Team at Harvard University

March 2017

3/18/2017 - McDonald’s Twitter Account Hacked, Anti-Trump Tweet Sent Out

January 2017

1/4/2017 - Oops: CNN Used Video Game Footage in Segment about Hacking

1/3/2017 - Washington Post Erroneously Claimed Russians Hacked US Electrical Grid

December 2016

12/19/2016 - Very Ironic: Obama Administration Blames Liberal Media for Ignoring Russia Hacking and Focusing on Leaked Documents

12/19/2016 - Why did Obama Wait Until Now to get Tough on Russia?

June 2016

6/20/2016 - Hacker Released Democrats’ Internal Document Showing Preference for Hillary Clinton Before Primaries

6/15/2016 - Russian Government Hackers Got Into DNC’s Database

6/2/2016 - Myspace Still Exists? Yup and It Got Hacked

May 2016

5/5/2016 - “It was Easy” to Breach Hillary Clinton’s Email Server, says Hacker

April 2016

4/27/2016 - Pro-ISIS Hacker Group Claims They Stole Information about State Dept Employees

4/22/2016 - FBI Paid Hackers Over $1 Million to Access San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone

November 2015

11/18/2015 - Obama Administration Won’t Testify about the OPM Hack

11/9/2015 - Internal State Dept Docs: Hillary Clinton’s Blackberry Vulnerable to Hacks

October 2015

10/20/2015 - FBI Investigating Claims of CIA Director’s AOL Email Account being Hacked

10/14/2015 - Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server was Vulnerable to Hackers

10/1/2015 - Russian-Based Hackers Tried to Access Hillary Clinton’s Emails

September 2015

9/25/2015 - ObamaCare Website is Gold for ID Thieves

9/24/2015 - OPM Admits 5.6 Million had Fingerprint Data Stolen

9/18/2015 - Hillary Clinton Won’t Admit the Security Problems with Her Secret, Private E-mail Server

9/16/2015 - China is Indexing Stolen Fed Employee Data like Facebook

9/6/2015 - Conservative Think Tank Heritage Foundation Hacked

July 2015

7/30/2015 - Planned Parenthood Claimed They were Hacked, but It Feels Like a PR Stunt

7/28/2015 - Hackers Take on Planned Parenthood’s Database

7/17/2015 - Chinese Hackers Used American Servers in Cyberattack

7/12/2015 - Feds Fail to Protect Sensitive Info in ObamaCare Enrollment

June 2015

6/17/2015 - Obama claims White House is Considering All Options after OPM Hacking Attack from China

6/15/2015 - State Dept has No Record of Hillary Clinton getting IT Training

6/15/2015 - Chinese Hackers may have gotten between 7 to 14 Million Files

6/12/2015 - China Hacks U.S. Feds Database, Takes Most of Fed Employee Info

6/6/2015 - Hacking Blame Game: Obama White House Blames Congress for Hacking

6/5/2015 - China Blamed for Hacking U.S. Federal Workers Database

May 2015

5/28/2015 - IRS Hackers traced to Russia

5/21/2015 - Health Insurer CareFirst Hacked back in 2014

April 2015

4/24/2015 - Dept of Defense Chief Admits Network was Hacked by Russians

4/22/2015 - State Department says There Have Been Hacking Attacks on their Network

March 2015

3/14/2015 - Hackers find Huge Security Holes in Hillary Clinton’s E-mail Server

February 2015

2/19/2015 - Google: FBI’s Expanded Hacking Powers a “Monumental” Violation

December 2014

12/28/2014 - North Korea blames U.S. for Internet Outages

12/24/2014 - North Korea’s Sony Hack made this the Age of the Bully

May 2014

5/24/2014 - EBay Passwords Hacked, 145 Million Users Affected

January 2014

1/4/2014 - Syrian Hackers claimed they hacked Skype accounts