National Republican Congressional Committee email accounts of four senior aides were compromised for several months earlier this year, Politico reports. U.S. intelligence agencies said in a January 2017 report about Russian meddling in the 2016 election that “Russia collected on some Republican-affiliated targets but did not conduct a comparable disclosure campaign” In theory, the NRCC – as well as any other political organization – should have been on high alert after the information disclosure campaign that damaged the Democratic Party prior to the 2016 presidential election. The most likely avenue that led to the compromise of the accounts is phishing, in which attackers trick victims into divulging their account credentials through fake login pages.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/top-republican-email-accounts-compromised-a-11801