"The hacks were so widespread and sustained over such a long period of time that U.S. Intelligence sources say it could not have been carried out without the knowledge of senior levels of the Kremlin. CBS News has learned that investigators believe the initial cyberattack involved thousands of malicious emails aimed at the U.S. government, military and political organizations. U.S. officials tell CBS News that U.S. Intelligence believes that Putin, at some point, was directly involved in the hacking around the U.S. election and approved the dissemination of the information. U.S. intelligence believes that Putin initially wanted to damage Hillary Clinton and to inject chaos and doubt into the election process. And Putin intended to do that – no matter who the Republican candidate turned out to be. It is clear that the hack and the subsequent document release ended up helping Donald Trump. Officials said it was an added bonus that Mr. Trump was the Republican nominee and ended up winning the election. The operation started in the summer of 2015 and was a large undertaking. First attempts by foreign hackers to disrupt the election came in the form of malware and phising emails, which allowed them into systems inside the Democratic National Committee. U.S. intelligence sources tell CBS News this type of cyber hacking could not have happened without Vladimir Putin’s blessing, saying: “The orders to do it would have had to come from th
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