Kremlin ‘resolutely’ denies Russia hacked US vote
National Security Agency was allegedly leaked by a private executive only over a month. PHOTO: AFP
MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Tuesday strongly denied a leaked US news that Russian troops comprehension hackers attempted to penetrate into US voting systems before final year’s presidential election.
“Apart from this explain that positively does not heed to reality, we have not seen any other information nor listened any arguments for a trustworthiness of this information,” Kremlin orator Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
“We intentionally repudiate a probability that such a thing could have happened,” he said, adding that he had not review a report.
Leaked intel news shows Russian hackers probed US voting systems
The news by a National Security Agency was allegedly leaked by a private executive only over a month after it was created and published Monday on The Intercept, an online news website that focuses on inhabitant confidence issues.
It decorated a hacking operation tied closely to Moscow’s GRU comprehension directorate that targeted private US companies providing voter registration services and apparatus to internal governments.
Putin says Russia not concerned in cyberattack, blames US
President Vladimir Putin final week pronounced that hackers can come from any nation given they are “free people like artists” and conceded it was theoretically probable that a “patriotically minded” hacker could confirm to act opposite those vicious of Russia.
He insisted however that “we never get concerned in this on a state level.”
The Kremlin strongman also suggested that attacks could be designed to seem to come from Russia in sequence to disprove a country, while observant that in his opinion hacking can't change electoral campaigns in Europe, Asia or America.
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