Former Rep. Brad Ashford John (Brad) Bradley AshfordThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - First lady casts Trump as fighter for the 'forgotten' House Democrats target Midwestern GOP seats Tight race brewing in Nebraska House contest: internal poll MORE (D-Neb.) said on Friday that his congressional emails were hacked by Russians in 2016.

“With indictments today, I can reveal that my #Ne02 Congressional emails were hacked by Russian agents in 2016,” Ashford said on Facebook. “This is very real and we all should be concerned.”

Ashford was first elected to Congress in 2014. Two years later he lost his reelection bid in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.

The former congressman’s statement came hours after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod RosensteinDOJ kept investigators from completing probe of Trump ties to Russia: report Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report FBI officials hid copies of Russia probe documents fearing Trump interference: book MORE announced that special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

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All 12 defendants were said to be members of Russia’s military intelligence agency, GRU.

A spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Meredith Kelly, said in a statement published by Roll Call that the “DCCC was the victim of a cybersecurity intrusion during the 2016 election cycle, and this indictment relates to that incident.”

She said the committee is cooperating with the investigation and could not provide further comment.