In June, in a report on its website, CrowdStrike identified two hacker groups - nicknamed “Cozy Bear” and “Fancy Bear” - that it found were working for the Russian government. She told a DNC lawyer who in turn called Crowdstrike’s president. Shortly after the hacks in April, the DNC’s CEO Amy Dacey had heard from her operations chief about unusual activity. By July 26, the New York Times first reported that intelligence agencies had told the White House that they had “high confidence” Russia was behind the hacks. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to resign that position. The saga culminated on July 22, when Wikileaks published emails stolen from the DNC that tore the party apart and led DNC Chair Rep. It entered the scene in April 2016 after the DNC was hacked, one of several intrusions that ended with Democratic operatives’ stolen emails being published by the thousands online, where they became fodder for news cycles and then-candidate Donald Trump’s stump speeches. In the DNC’s case, the theft also included strategy documents, fundraising data, and opposition research, the Mueller report later confirmed. But its work in 2016 for the Democratic National Committee brought the company to front pages worldwide. In reality, Crowdstrike has had a hand investigating a number of high-profile hacking incidents, including the North Korean cyber-intrusion into Sony Pictures. (Rich’s family has repeatedly asked prominent right wingers, including via a pending lawsuit against Fox News, to stop spreading this fake story.) This, some right-wingers strenuously assert, gave Democrats cover for the supposed murder of Seth Rich, the former DNC staffer who, conspiracists believe, was the real source of the stolen emails published by Wikileaks. Crowdstrike, the conspiracy goes, provided the FBI with false information incriminating Russian hackers while the DNC refused to hand over the servers themselves. The theory’s proponents accuse Democrats of planting evidence that their servers were hacked during the 2016 election - a breach that, arguably, contributed to Hillary Clinton’s loss that November.
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