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Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader, advised fellow democrats to not disclose text messages to family and to request new phone numbers after a cyber-security breach happened. The breach ended up releasing some personal details of Congressional members and some of their staff members. Pelosi added that she also personally received obscene calls and text messages.

This incident was the latest in a long list of cyber-attacks against democratic organizations. This may be a result of the elections as they create more tensions in the political field. The FBI stated that they believe Russia hacked into groups and the personal e-mails of certain political figures.

Pelosi said that the democratic committee has hired a professional cyber-security firm investigate the perpetrators of the breach and find out where it came from. She added that this was equitable to Watergate only in an electronic form. The firm is also tasked with finding any security weaknesses that remain with the party and their electronic devices. The House’s information technology system was not part of the breach, Pelosi confirmed.

Chief Information Security Officer for the House, John Ramsey stated that he directed anyone involved in the breach to increase their security measures, such as change all passwords and reach out to police if any threatening messages are received.

On Friday, a document was released from a person or people going by the title “Guccifer 2.0”. The document included mobile phone numbers of democratic party members, their passwords, email addresses. It included information of those who attended democratic fundraiser events. The person or group claim to be from Romania. That is in question though because the person did not seem to speak Romanian. Cybersecurity groups believe that Guccifer 2.0 is actually a moniker for Russian-based hackers.