Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign ‘hacked’

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been hacked as part of a wider cyber attack against Democratic Party institutions, US media have reported.

The Clinton campaign said on Friday that an analytics data program, which it shared with other Democratic Party entities, had been accessed by hackers.

However, her press secretary Nick Merrill said there was "no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised".

The FBI said it was investigating the allegations and the extent of any hacking.

The latest hack comes in the wake of two data breaches involving the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The hacked emails, showing that Democratic Party officials were biased against Bernie Sanders in his primary race against Clinton, were leaked on the eve of last week’s party convention.

The leak led to the resignation of the party’s chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schulz and sparked protests at the convention in Philadelphia.  

US officials widely believe that the cyber attacks were committed by agents working for the Russian government.

Russia has denied involvement and denounced the "poisonous anti-Russian" rhetoric coming out of Washington.

The DCCC, which works to raise money for Democratic congressional candidates, said in a statement on Friday that they have hired cyber security firm CrowdStrike to help with the investigation.

"We have taken and are continuing to take steps to enhance the security of our network," the DCCC said. "We are cooperating with federal law enforcement with respect to their ongoing investigation."