...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway."Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," then-candidate Donald Trump said at a July 27, 2016 press conference in Florida, urging Russian hackers to work to find emails belonging to his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
"I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let's see if that happens."
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He also posted on Twitter, urging Russia "or any other country or person" to release Clinton emails.
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Although he later said he was speaking in jest, the comment was made the same day that Russian state hackers are now alleged to have made fresh attempts to hack Clinton campaign emails.
According to an indictment handed up on Friday against 12 Russian military officers by special counsel Robert Mueller, the hackers on July 27, 2016 "attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton's personal office." [emphasis added]
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Spearphishing refers to the practice of attempting to steal a person's password or gain access to their computer.
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"At or around the same time, they also targeted seventy-six email addresses at the domain for the Clinton Campaign," Mueller wrote.
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