I made this comment as a reply to someone else, but I figured it was so nice I had to post it twice. Hi, here is an article from The Hill published in 2017 that shows why the theory it wasn't done over remote internet access (and thus Seth Rich / DNC insiders) is probably wrong. In short, the files were almost definitely duplicated onto USB drives, which the theory hinges on -- but well after they were extracted from the DNC servers, probably by the hackers trying to share files offline after extracting them via remote connection. Not Seth Rich. https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346468-why-the-latest-theory-about-the-dnc-not-being-a-hack-is-probably-wrong Half a year later, Mueller released an indictment of the specific Russian agents who performed the hack. You can read the entire indictment to learn the technical details of how the Russian hackers performed the actual hack. It was much more complicated than you might think. https://www.scribd.com/document/391643669/Mueller-Vs-Russian-Hackers-Indictment At this late in the investigation it's clear that Seth Rich's murder was used as a political prop by members of the Trump Campaign to distract people from the actual hack. To quote another comment I made,  In fact, Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone used the Seth Rich conspiracy theory to cover their tracks. They publicly fanned the flames about the rumor that Seth Rich was the hacker, but in a 2 August 2016 private e-mail from Corsi to Stone, Corsi wrote, "Time to let more than [the Clinton Campaign chairman] to be exposed as in bed w enemy if they are not ready to drop HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton]. That appears to be the game hackers are now about." (Emphasis mine.) "The game hackers are now about", plural, almost 2 months after Seth Rich was murdered. And here is an article covering Stone interviewing Corsi for InfoWars and perpetuating the myth that Seth Rich as the hacker, almost a year after Corsi and Stone e-mailed each other about the goals of the very-much alive hackers.  Sorry to break it to you bud, but you've been duped into believing a conspiracy theory.