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Welcome to the lead.

I'm Pamela Brown, in for Jake Tapper today.

And we start with the tech lead and a new alarming cyber attack.

This one closely linked to the Republican National Committee, and possibly a repeat

of the 2016 DNC hack with the very same cyber criminals responsible.

The RNC told CNN hackers breached one of its third-party vendors, and the same time the RNC

learned of this hack, another major ransomware attack was playing out.

Hackers with possible ties to Russia demanded $70 million worth of Bitcoin from a series

of IT companies, those companies service more than 1,000 corporate and government clients.

Both cyber attacks come as the Biden administration faces mounting pressure to deter these kinds

of attacks.

So let's start with CNN's Alex Markhart, so what more do we know about this attack

with links to the RNC Alex?

Well, the RNC uses a company called Cinex as an IT provider, and Cinex was attacked by

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