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All of the events you mention were in October after the emails were released by Wikileaks.

The spearphishing attack happened in March.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899#efmAAGAAb...

Also his password was never p@ssword, that was his Windows machine default pass.

Nice, fill us in on what we don't know. I also think there is a lot of confusion as people aren't separating the DNC hacks and the Podesta email leaks.

From the Twitter hack it seems that people still had access to his Gmail in October. Unless they someone how got that password a different way. Or it was password re-use.

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