Democrats are seizing on recent revelations that the House GOP’s campaign arm was hacked earlier this year to spotlight that both parties are vulnerable to cyberattacks.
The FBI is investigating a cyber breach at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that felt like déjà vu to many in Washington — hackers targeting political campaign groups. This time, however, the perpetrators aimed their digital tools at the GOP instead of Democrats.
“It creates more of a sense of how critical it is that we protect our infrastructure,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) told The Hill this week. “The federal government has certainly had plenty of hacks of their own, so we can’t say with any certainty, ‘Do this like we do it you won’t have a problem,’ because we’ve had plenty of problems.”