In September 2015, a hacker known as Detox Ransome breached a service connected to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and was able to steal large databases of emails, usernames, and passwords from people connected to major services and organizations for the DNC. Screenshots, chat logs, and video evidence of the attack were provided to Epoch Times by Edward Alexander, a cybersecurity expert who runs the worlds largest known team of darknet cybercrime undercover investigators.