The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said late Thursday that the fake login page it had reported as a potential hack on its database was actually a test.
DNC chief security officer Bob Lord said in a statement provided to The Hill that the organization now believes the site, apparently designed to be used in a spear-phishing attack, “was built by a third party as part of a simulated phishing test” on the service that hosts the database, VoteBuilder.
“The test, which mimicked several attributes of actual attacks on the Democratic party’s voter file, was not authorized by the DNC, VoteBuilder nor any of our vendors,” Lord said,.
