South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he too was a victim of Russian hackers claiming they compromised his presidential campaign email account in June this year. The Republican lawmaker called for a tougher stance against Moscow. During the 2016 election race, the email account of former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign Chairman John Podesta was hacked and the emails were published on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The website also leaked thousands of emails allegedly acquired from Russian hackers who compromised several Democratic National Committee (DNC) accounts. In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Graham said: “I do believe the Russians hacked into the DNC. I do believe they hacked into Podesta’s email account. They hacked into my campaign account. I do believe that all the information released publicly hurt Clinton and didn’t hurt Trump. I don’t think the outcome of the election is in doubt. What we should do is not turn on each other but work as one people to push back on Russia.”
Speaking of the hacking of his own campaign, Graham said FBI officials informed him about the hack in August.
“Well our campaign vendor that we used was hacked. We were told by the FBI in August that we were hacked in June,” he said. “[Russia is] trying to destabilize democracy all over the world, not just here.”
Graham’s hacked emails were published on a website called DCLeaks in August.
Full Article: Russia Election Hack Update: Lindsey Graham Says Moscow Hacked His Presidential Campaign Email Account.