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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating attempt of hacking of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Reuters reported.

The Committee raises funds for nominees for congressional seat. According to the sources, hacking attempt can be connected with an intention to obtain data about donors of the party, rather than with theft.

According to the initial information, at the beginning of June a bogus website was created. For a certain period of time, traffic on donations was readdressed to this website.

The IP address of the double website was similar to what was used by one of groups of the hackers who carried out an attack against e-mail server of the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC). This attack led to a political scandal.  WikiLeaks website published correspondence of party leadership, which, although being neutral to the presidential candidates, in fact, criticized Bernie Sanders and favored H

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