We may never know if Russia’s digital offensive, which spared Donald J. Trump and his Republican allies, cost Mrs. Clinton the election. But we do know how much it hurt candidates in campaigns for Congress.

I spoke with a victim of the cyberattack, Annette Taddeo, who believes the embarrassing documents released by Russian hackers were a deciding factor in her defeat this year.

“I don’t think we are as shocked as we should be and as angry as we should be,” Ms. Taddeo tells me. “This is very alarming to our democracy and everything we stand for.”

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