Hillary Leaks Series: Wikileaks releases 20,000 DNC Emails

Today, whistleblowing website

Wikileaks

has finally

published

around 20,000 e-mails, which contains more than 8,000 attachments from the

US Democratic National Committee (DMC)

.

The new trove of documents apparently pilfered from the DMC released after Wikileaks yesterday

announced

via its official Twitter account that a "series" about Hillary Clinton is coming soon.

The published documents are part one of Wikileaks' new Hillary Leaks series, Wikileaks said in a press release.

The emails released by Wikileaks were handed over to the whistleblower organization by the DNC hacker using handle "

Guccifer 2.0

," who hacked DNC’s computer systems in a such a way that the hacker was able to read all email and chat traffic.

The leaked 19,252 emails cover a period from January 2015 to May 2016 and allegedly come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC:

1. Communications Director Luis Miranda — 10770 emails.
2. National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan — 3797 emails.
3. Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer — 3095 emails.
4. Finance Director of Data & Strategic Initiatives Daniel Parrish — 1472 emails.
5. Finance Director Allen Zachary — 1611 emails.
6. Senior Advisor Andrew Wright — 938 emails.
7. Northern California Finance Director Robert (Erik) Stowe — 751 emails.

The organization has also released 8,034 DNC email attachments, which includes 891 documents, 175 spreadsheets and thousands of images.

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