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		</div><p>New evidence released by WikiLeaks appears to show how hackers earlier this year stole more than 50,000 emails from Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign chairman.</p>
<p>The audacious electronic attack, blamed on Russia&#8217;s government, resulted in embarrassing political disclosures about Democrats in the final weeks before the US presidential election.</p>
<p>The hackers sent John Podesta an official-looking email on Saturday March 19 that appeared to come from Google, according to a batch of messages published by WikiLeaks.</p>
<p>It warned that someone in Ukraine had obtained Mr Podesta&#8217;s personal Gmail password and tried unsuccessfully to log in, and it directed him to a website where he should &#8220;change your password immediately&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Podesta&#8217;s chief of staff, Sara Latham, forwarded the email to the operations help desk of Mrs Clinton&#8217;s campaign, where staffer Charles Delavan in Brooklyn, New York, wrote back 25 minutes later: &#8220;This is a legitimate email. John needs to change his password immediately.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the email was not authentic.</p>
<p>The link to the website where Mr Podesta was encouraged to change his Gmail password actually directed him instead to a computer in the Netherlands with a web address associated with Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand located in the South Pacific.</p>
<p>The hackers carefully disguised the link using a service that shortens lengthy online addresses.</p>
<p>But even for anyone checking more diligently, the address &#8211; &#8220;google.com-securitysettingpage&#8221; &#8211; was crafted to appear genuine.</p>
<p>In the email, the hackers even provided an internet address of the purported Ukrainian hacker that actually traced to a mobile communications provider in Ukraine.</p>
<p>It was also notable that the hackers struck Mr Podesta on a weekend morning, when organisations typically have fewer resources to investigate and respond to reports of such problems.</p>
<p>It is not immediately clear how Mr Podesta responded to the threat, but five months later hackers successfully downloaded tens of thousands of emails from Mr Podesta&#8217;s accounts that have now been posted online.</p>
<p>The Clinton campaign declined to discuss the incident.</p>
<p>Mr Podesta has previously confirmed his emails were hacked and said the FBI was investigating.</p>
<p>The suspicious email was among more than 1,400 messages published by WikiLeaks on Friday that had been hacked from Mr Podesta&#8217;s account.</p>
<p>It was not known whether the hackers deliberately left behind the evidence of their attempted break-in for WikiLeaks to reveal, but the tools they were using seven months ago still indicate they were personally targeting Mr Podesta &#8211; late on Friday, the computer in the Netherlands that had been used in the hacking attempt featured a copy of Mr Podesta&#8217;s biographical page from Wikipedia.</p>
<p>The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Homeland Security Department have formally accused Russian state-sponsored hackers over the recent string of cyber attacks intended to influence the presidential election.</p>
<p>Mr Delevan emailed to Mr Podesta&#8217;s chief of staff a separate, authentic link to reset Mr Podesta&#8217;s Gmail password and encouraged Mr Podesta to turn on two-factor authentication.</p>
<p>That feature protects an account by requiring a second code that is separately sent to a mobile phone or alternate email address before a user can log in.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is absolutely imperative that this is done ASAP,&#8221; Mr Delevan said.</p>
<p>Tod Beardsley, a security research manager at the Boston-based cyber security firm Rapid7, said the fact that an IT person deemed the suspicious email to be legitimate &#8220;pretty much guarantees the user who is not an IT person is going to click on it&#8221;.</p>
<p>Other emails previously released by WikiLeaks have included messages containing the password for Mr Podesta&#8217;s iPhone and iPad accounts.</p>
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