A Russian Twitter account published documents from one of the cases special counsel Robert Mueller has filed in an effort to spread disinformation, according to a new report.
CNN saidWednesday that the Twitter handle @HackingRedstone, which has since been suspended by the social media network, posted documents pertaining to Mueller"s criminal case against Concord Management and Consulting in October. The sensitive material had been shared with attorneys but had not been made public.
Mueller"s prosecutors said the documents were not stolen in a hack, but rather someone with access handed them off for public dissemination.
The Department of Justice filed a court document Wednesday about the matter.
Mueller"s team has been investigating since May 2017 whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. As part of the probe, more than two dozen Russians and Russian companies have been charged with election tampering. They have not been extradited to the United States and likely won"t be.
According to Wednesday"s court filing, the FBI concluded that a computer in Russia was responsible for uploading the case documents.
This message appeared on the Twitter account @HackingRedstone on Oct. 22, 2018: "We"ve got access to the Special Counsel Mueller"s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!"
The tweet linked to a file sharing website where the documents could be viewed, the court filing reads.
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