Chicago DNC 2024: Officials downplay ZeroFox cybersecurity report of data compromise ahead of Democratic National Convention [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — Five days before the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, there are fresh concerns over cybersecurity after a recent report said it found some DNC data and credentials on a dark web hacking service.

DNC officials are strongly pushing back on the report, telling the ABC7 I-Team that the records are from the infamous 2016 data breach and that “none of the records referenced are active or associated with the 2024 Democratic National Convention.”

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When the Baltimore-based cyberanalytics firm ZeroFox released its report on Wednesday, titled “Threats to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,” it gained traction in some cybersecurity circles.

The report states that researchers discovered compromised credentials associated with official DNC websites were aggregated by a Telegram-based bot service called “IntelFetch.” The records included email addresses and records from users registered on the party’s official site.

The ZeroFox report states that, “Operatives identified records associated with ‘demconvention[.]com,’ …