October 2015: Security experts believe that the Russian government tried to hack into the Dutch government’s computers to pull out a report about the shoot down of Flight MH17 over Ukraine.Both the CIA and the FBI now believe the intrusions were intended to undermine the election, hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win. June 2015 - November 2016: In the U.S., Russian hackers penetrated Democratic party computers, and gained access to the personal emails of Democratic officials, which in turn were distributed to the global media by WikiLeaks.December 2015: Hackers believed to Russian took over the control center of a Ukrainian power station, locking controllers out of their own systems and eventually leaving 235,000 homes without power.Security experts said hackers were trying to penetrate the computers of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic party. The BfV, German’s domestic intelligence service, later said Russia was behind the attack and that they were seeking information not just on the workings of the Bundestag, but German leaders and NATO, among others. May 2015: German investigators discovered hackers had penetrated the computer network of the German Bundestag, the most significant hack in German history.A DDOS attack 32 times larger than the largest known attack used during Russia’s invasion of Georgia disrupted the internet in Ukraine while Russian-armed pro-Russian rebels were seizing control of the Crimea. March 2014: For the second time, the Russian government allegedly coordinated military and cyber action.The attack was aimed at creating chaos and hurting the nationalist candidate while helping the pro-Russian candidate. Ukrainian police say they arrested hackers who were trying to rig the results.
Even a back-up system was taken down, but Ukrainian computer experts were able to restore the system before election day.
April 2009: After a media outlet in Kazakhstan published a statement by Kazakhstan’s president that criticized Russia, a DDOS attack attributed to Russian elements shut down the outlet.Subsequently, Kyrgyzstan received $2 billion in aid and loans from the Kremlin. January 2009: As part of an effort to persuade the president of Kyrgyzstan to evict an American military base, Russian hackers shut down two of the country’s four internet service providers with a DDOS attack.Georgia’s internal communications were effectively shut down. August 2008: After Georgia’s pro-Western government sent troops into a breakaway republic backed by Moscow, Russian land, sea and air units invaded the country – and Russian hackers attacked Georgia’s internet, the first time Russia coordinated military and cyber action.When the Lithuanian government outlawed the display of Soviet symbols, Russian hackers defaced government web pages with hammer-and-sickles and five-pointed stars. June 2008: In a similar attack, Russia punished another former possession in the Baltic.The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack focused on government offices and financial institutions, disrupting communications. Russia retaliating by temporarily disabling Estonia’s internet, an especially harsh blow in the world’s most internet dependent economy. April – May 2007: Estonia, a tiny Baltic nation that was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1991, angered Moscow by planning to move a Russian World War II memorial and Russian soldiers’ graves.intelligence sources shows Russia was involved in the following attacks: Putin is a risk taker, who thinks, ‘If this doesn’t work, we’ll do something else.’"Ī chronology developed by NBC News from U.S. "It is a growing policy that’s strong and successful and they’re getting bolder," Meister told NBC News.