I want to add something to the discussion but it's difficult for me to accurately summarize and cite things. In a nutshell, there appears to be a lot of tomfoolery with CrowdStrike and the stuff that happened with the DNC during the 2016 election. Here's some of what I'm talking about:
This 2017 piece talks about doubt behind CrowdStrike's analysis of the DNC hack being the result of Russian actors. One of the groups disputing CrowdStrike's analysis was Ukraine's military.
https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-...
"For one, the vulnerability he claims to have used to hack the NGP VAN ... was not introduced into the code until an update more than three months after Guccifer claims to have entered the DNC system."
"This was a very egregious breach and our data was stolen," Mook said. "We need to be sure that the Sanders campaign no longer has access to our data."
"This bug was a brief, isolated issue, and we are not aware of any previous reports of such data being inappropriately available," the company said in a blog post on its website.
There's a strong link between the DNC, Hillary, and CrowdStrike. Here's once piece that links a cofounder of CrowdStrike with Hillary pretty far back: https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/dmitri-alperovitc...
This 2017 piece talks about doubt behind CrowdStrike's analysis of the DNC hack being the result of Russian actors. One of the groups disputing CrowdStrike's analysis was Ukraine's military. https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-...
This detailed analysis of CrowdStrike's explanation of the DNC hack goes so far as to say "this sounded made up" https://threatconnect.com/resource/webinar-guccifer-2-0-the-...
The Threat Connect analysis is also discussed here: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/295670-prewritten-gu...
"For one, the vulnerability he claims to have used to hack the NGP VAN ... was not introduced into the code until an update more than three months after Guccifer claims to have entered the DNC system."
Noted at the end of this story they mention that CrowdStrike installed it's software on all of the DNC's systems: https://www.ft.com/content/5eeff6fc-3253-11e6-bda0-04585c31b...
Finally, there's this famous but largely forgotten story of the time Bernie's campaign was accused to accessing Hillary's data: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/460273748/bernie-sanders-camp...
"This was a very egregious breach and our data was stolen," Mook said. "We need to be sure that the Sanders campaign no longer has access to our data."
"This bug was a brief, isolated issue, and we are not aware of any previous reports of such data being inappropriately available," the company said in a blog post on its website.
(edited for spelling)