Putin Denies Russia Hacked DNC: ‘Does It Even Matter Who Hacked This Data?’

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The Blaze:

Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly denied that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee’s data and questioned if it even matters who is responsible.

 

“Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?” Putin asked during an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday. “The important thing is the content that was given to the public.”

 

The DNC was hacked prior to WikiLeaks’ release of emails sent by DNC staffers suggesting some in the party actively sought to promote Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign over her rivals. The emails led to the resignation of the party’s chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.).

 

WikiLeaks has not revealed their source in the leak, but cybersecurity experts in the United States suspect that the hack had a Russian connection.

 

Putin said, “There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it.”

 

“But I want to tell you again, I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russia has never done this,” he said.

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