{"id":245335,"date":"2016-12-13T22:19:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T05:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=245335"},"modified":"2016-12-14T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T04:03:23","slug":"russian-hackers-targeted-nms-ben-ray-lujan-ny-times-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/12\/russian-hackers-targeted-nms-ben-ray-lujan-ny-times-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian hackers targeted NM’s Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n, NY Times reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n, D-N.M., was among those targeted by Russian hackers\u00a0aiming\u00a0to influence the November election, The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/13\/us\/politics\/house-democrats-hacking-dccc.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F05C5ydPpqn\" target=\"_blank\">is reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_245338\" class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-245338\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lujan-Ben-Ray-336x246.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n\" width=\"336\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lujan-Ben-Ray-336x246.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lujan-Ben-Ray-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lujan-Ben-Ray-771x565.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lujan-Ben-Ray-1170x857.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lujan-Ben-Ray.jpg 1367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Courtesy photo<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A\u00a0website that posted documents stolen from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the campaign arm of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, which Luj\u00e1n chairs, “posted a cache of confidential documents focusing on Representative Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n, Democrat of New Mexico, the chairman of the D.C.C.C., who faced no serious challenger this year,” the newspaper reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/13\/us\/politics\/house-democrats-hacking-dccc.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F05C5ydPpqn\" target=\"_blank\">late Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>“Mr. Luj\u00e1n said it was a clear effort to send a message to the party leadership \u2014 that the hackers wanted to try to hurt Democrats at all levels of the party, from lesser known races in Florida to the leadership,” The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Luj\u00e1n\u00a0was part of a larger hacking of DCCC documents before the election, The New York Times reported. The information released about\u00a0nearly a dozen House candidates\u00a0nationwide “was largely lost in the focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/13\/us\/politics\/russia-hack-election-dnc.html\" target=\"_blank\">the hacking attacks against the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign<\/a>,” the newspaper reported. “But this untold story underscores the effect the Russian operation had on the American electoral system.”<\/p>\n<p>After the theft of DCCC documents, Luj\u00e1n wrote to the campaign committee for House Republicans, the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, urging it to “not use this stolen material in the 2016 campaign.”<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>“The N.R.C.C.\u2019s use of documents stolen by the Russians plays right into the hands of one of the United States\u2019 most dangerous adversaries,\u201dLuj\u00e1n\u2019s Aug. 29 letter stated, according to The New York Times. \u201cPut simply, if this action continues, the N.R.C.C. will be complicit in aiding the Russian government in its effort to influence American elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article on Russia targeting House Democrats was the second on the hacking The New York Times published Tuesday. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/13\/us\/politics\/russia-hack-election-dnc.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first<\/a>, the newspaper detailed Russia’s hacking of Democratic National Committee computers in an attempt to harm Clinton’s\u00a0presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n, D-N.M., was among those targeted by Russian hackers aiming to influence the November election, The New York Times is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[708,3326,287,116],"class_list":["post-245335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2016-election","tag-ben-ray-lujan","tag-international-politics","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}