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By SecureWorld News Team
Tue | Jun 21, 2016 | 1:50 PM PDT

It's been a rough couple of weeks for politicians when it comes to cyber-crime, and things do not appear to be looking up. 

The Hill Reports

The Russian hackers believed to be behind the breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) also infiltrated the Clinton Foundation, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The breach was discovered by government investigators as recently as last week, the report said. A spokesperson for the foundation told Bloomberg it has not seen any sign its network had been compromised. The Hill was not able to immediately verify the breach. 

The report comes as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton continues to combat allegations that her use of a private email server as secretary of State exposed sensitive information to hackers.

Prior to the DNC's disclosure of the breach last week, U.S. officials informed both political parties as well as the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders that hackers were targeting their networks, a person familiar with the government investigation told Bloomberg.

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