 Mast claimed no knowledge of being given a position on the board and said he only had a couple encounters with members of the company.In 2018, Anthony Bustamante, a campaign consultant who had worked on Mast's 2016 campaign, told "The Wall Street Journal" that he had used data hacked from the Democratic National Committee by Guccifer 2.0, a front for Russia's GRU military intelligence service, to adjust Mast's campaign strategy.The hacked data had been leaked by Guccifer 2.0 to the HelloFLA blog.