Spicer zeroes in on DNC’s ‘lax IT support’

Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Sunday that a report last week linking Russia to the hacking of Democratic Party organizations showed the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was lax in its IT security.

“While the media played it up as this report about the hacking, what it actually is, if you look through it, and its available online, is a series of recommendations that should be taken, like changing passwords, changing administrative rights,” Spicer said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“What it shows is that by all measures the Democratic National Committee had a very lax IT support,” he added.

Spicer said that hacking is “wrong by any standards.”

{mosads}“But the fact of the matter is, what this report really does show is that there’s a need for them to go back in and look at their, what they’re doing IT wise to protect their system.”

When pressed whether Donald Trump believes Russia is behind the hacking, Spicer focused on an upcoming briefing the president-elect is scheduled to have from the intelligence community.

“It’s a question of getting the information. Everyone in the media wants to jump forward and make a conclusion based off other sourced information, you know anonymous sources that are coming out of the intelligence community, he’s gonna do this right.”

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