The Katie Hill campaign has been in the eyes of the FBI for a few years now. With that said, Federal agents have recently arrested a hacker, Arthur Dam.
He was associated with Hill during the hacking spree as she ran in the 2018 Democratic California primary. That gave the delinquent the nomination.
Many other Democrats running in the primary were hacked except Hill. That, of course, became quite suspicious enough for the FBI to investigate. So because of the extra attention (in not such a good way), she ended up resigning from the primary.
Arthur Dam, arrested by the FBI, listed a $500 in-kind contribution to Hill's campaign in March 2018 for "graphic design and website security consultation." pic.twitter.com/2KhK7xNDD4
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 21, 2020
According to The Intercept:
During the campaign, the websites of Hill’s opponents, Democrats Jess Phoenix and Bryan Caforio, who was supported by Justice Democrats, were both attacked, though Hill’s never was, raising suspicions at the time that Hill’s campaign was behind them. One major attack on Caforio’s campaign website came at a crucial moment, just an hour before the biggest debate of the primary, the complaint notes. Hill eventually won the California primary by fewer than 3,000 votes.
The FBI launched a probe that zeroed in on the Hill campaign in 2019, according to FBI correspondence reviewed by The Intercept. Hill did not immediately respond for comment.
The FBI traced the hacking to an Amazon Web Services account tied to the email address [email protected], though the credit card used to pay for the service was listed under Dam. The Hotmail account had been created in 2002 using the subscriber name “Arthur Slam.” Dam also used the Hotmail account as the recovery email for his own Gmail account.
“I’m absolutely shocked and saddened to learn today that Katie Hill’s campaign associates hacked my campaign in order to help her advance through the primary,” Caforio told The Intercept. “This should serve as a reminder that Russia is not the only threat to our democracy. There are bad actors on all sides who will do anything for their own personal gain, and we need to come together as Americans to defend our country and hold everyone responsible accountable.”
It's insane what a Dem will do to win overvotes. Yet Republicans are constantly under fire for cheating into the race.