The Podesta account - email - was hacked via phishing attack. Same type we are all used to where they ask you to login to eBay, or PayPal or say RoyalBank or TD bank.

The main difference is that the attacker personalised the attack.

Hardly a proof Russia did it or anyone with "secret knowledge". There are millions of people whom could have done it. Cannot believe that luck of technological knowledge is allowing the media to manipulate people so much.