UPDATE:
Thanks to a friendly commenter I discovered the Yahoo! email hack that was just revealed, took place in 2014 — but us conspiracy paranoids don’t pay attention to such niggling facts…. (actually, I was taken in by the email they sent me and while I saw 2014 — being old and not well oriented to what year it is — thought it was a recent hack…
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If you have a YaHoo! email account you’e already heard that there was a massive state sponsored hack, and have changed your email password to something like uT7&-hHH-r#-5-83-+~fuk-off. If you haven’t heard about this:
Yahoo Suspects Its Hack May Be State Sponsored, And Much Worse Than Originally Believed
"Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen and the investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo's network. Yahoo is working closely with law enforcement on this matter," said Bob Lord, Yahoo's chief information security officer, in a statement on Thursday afternoon.
The stolen account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and in some cases, according to Lord, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.
The company is urging users to change their Yahoo password, and also to update their password and security questions if the same ones were used on any other accounts. NBC News
Now how an earth can this be a conspiracy?
The answer can be summarized in one name: Michael Isikoff. He’s on “AM Joy” right now explaining the ties that Trump advisor Carter Page may have to Russian officials.
But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian’s leading oil company, a well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News. That meeting, if confirmed, is viewed as especially problematic by U.S. officials because the Treasury Department in August 2014 named Sechin to a list of Russian officials and businessmen sanctioned over Russia’s “illegitimate and unlawful actions in the Ukraine.” (The Treasury announcement described Sechin as “utterly loyal to Vladimir Putin — a key component to his current standing.” At their alleged meeting, Sechin raised the issue of the lifting of sanctions with Page, the Western intelligence source said.
U.S. intelligence agencies have also received reports that Page met with another top Putin aide while in Moscow — Igor Diveykin. A former Russian security official, Diveykin now serves as deputy chief for internal policy and is believed by U.S. officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agencies about the U.S. election, the Western intelligence source said. Read YaHoo! News article
Guess where Isikoff works.
He’s the chief investigative correspondent at YaHoo! News.
Is this a co-incidence or a conspiracy? Is Russia trying to get into confidential Isikoff emails and covering it up with a massive hack? Or are they just trying to get revenge?
Seriously, here’s yet another piece of bad news for Trump. Take the hack out of the equation, it is the third “bombshell” in about a week. First we had the Newsweek cover story by Kurt Eichenwald, then Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold’s scoops about the Trump Foundation being a personal piggy bank for Trump. Then a still smoking bombshell, Eichenwald’s reporting thet “Donald Trump committed perjury. Or he looked into the faces of the Republican faithful and knowingly lied. There is no third option.” www.dailykos.com/…
So once again a poll —