Following the Friday night dump of Democratic files released by the hacker Guccifer 2.0, which included the contact information of all Congressional democrats including personal emails and cell phone numbers, the reaction has been swift, and nowhere more so than in the case of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who said that after receiving "scores of mostly obscene and sick calls, voicemails and text messages", she was forced to change her number, she said on Saturday.
"Please be careful not to allow your children or family members to answer your phone" she said while urging members and staff who were receiving similar calls to change their phone numbers,
Pelosi added that she was on a flight to from Florida to California when the information was released, and received the unwanted messages upon landing.
As we reported on Friday night, the hacking group "Guccifer 2.0" claimed responsibility for the breach, which took documents from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. American officials have said the hack is likely the work of Russian intelligence services. They have yet to show any evidence to substantiate the allegations.
Friday’s was the latest release of information from cyber-attacks against Democratic organizations as the 2016 elections heat up. The FBI has said it has "high confidence" the Russian government hacked party groups and the personal e-mails of political operatives, despite repeated denials by the actual infiltrators.
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