Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman was notified by Google in March than someone utilizing a computer server in Ukraine had obtained his password and was trying to access his Gmail account.
Messages released by WikiLeaks on Friday include the alert to John Podesta and a subsequent exchange with a campaign IT staffer. The staffer urged Podesta to immediately change his password and take further precautions to keep outsiders from accessing his email.
It is not immediately clear how Podesta responded. Five months later hackers successfully downloaded tens of thousands of emails from Podesta's accounts that have since been posted on the internet.
The hack is among several recent cyberattacks intended to influence the presidential election. U.S. intelligence officials blame them on Russia.
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