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"Just making a verified, hardware-level copy of all the bits, all the data that's stored on the system is sufficient for almost all investigations that would have to be conducted," said Spafford, who has assisted the FBI in cases. Cybersecurity firms like CrowdStrike make copies of computer systems for law enforcement investigators to examine. Spafford, a professor of computer science at the Center for Education and Research in Information Security at Purdue University. Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress in 2017 that agents never physically examined the DNC's computers but CrowdStrike "ultimately shared with us their forensics from their review of the system." That's typical for such investigations, said Eugene H. CrowdStrike first identified malware on the DNC's server system, later tracing the hack to Russia. The false claims circulated widely on Twitter and Facebook after the White House released a rough transcript of President Donald Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in which he asked Zelenskiy to investigate CrowdStrike.
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The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike "provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI," the U.S.-owned company confirmed to The Associated Press in an email. Why didn’t they take the server? Where is the server, I want to know, and what is the server saying?”).THE FACTS: Social media posts wrongly claim the FBI did not review evidence before concluding Russia breached the DNC's computer system in 2016. He even brought it up standing next to Vladimir Putin at the now infamous 2018 Helsinki meeting, where Trump refused to acknowledge Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election (“You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Key background: Trump has frequently raised questions about the “missing DNC server” and why the FBI never got to look at it. As we’ve stated before, we stand by our findings and conclusions that have been fully supported by the US Intelligence community.”Ĭrucial quote: “The server, they say Ukraine has it,” Trump said on the phone call with Zelensky, according to records of the exchange. In a statement to Forbes, a spokesperson CrowdStrike stated: “With regards to our investigation of the DNC hack in 2016, we provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI.Breitbart and the Daily Caller also claim Alperovitch has anti-Russia leanings, solely because he’s a nonresident senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, which the outlets claim takes a hawkish stance against Russia and is funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros.That belief may stem from a statement by President Trump in a 2017 interview with the Associated Press, in which he questioned why the FBI didn’t look at the DNC server, that CrowdStrike is owned by “a very rich Ukrainian.” Alperovitch is actually a Russian-born American citizen.The supposed evidence of Russia’s innocence relies on the belief that a DNC server has been hidden in Ukraine, possibly by CrowdStrike’s cofounder Dmitri Alperovitch.According to the theory, which has been prominent on right-wing blogs and news websites and repeated by Trump and former campaign consultant Roger Stone, Democrats and CrowdStrike concocted evidence to frame Russia for the hack in order to discredit Trump’s win in 2016.The company didn’t give the DNC’s physical server to the FBI, which has been seized on by conspiracy theorists as evidence of a cover up. Silicon Valley-based CrowdStrike was hired in 2016 by the DNC to investigate the origins of the hack.