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The DOJ says a pro-Russia Twitter account used nonpublic Mueller info for disinformation.

A pro-Russian Twitter account used information from a criminal case that special counsel Robert Mueller's team brought against a Russian social media company as part of a disinformation campaign, according to a new filing from the Justice Department.

That publication of documents that had been shared with defense attorneys, but not made public in the ongoing case, was yet another disinformation campaign from Russia -- this time aimed at discrediting Mr. Mueller's investigation, federal prosecutors wrote in the filing Wednesday.

"Certain non-sensitive discovery materials in the defense's possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system," prosecutors wrote.

The documents -- though they did not contain sensitive information that could harm American national security -- should have never reached the public's view, the prosecutors said.

In late October, the account @HackingRedstone posted on Twitter a webpage with documents from the criminal case against Concord Management and Consulting. The computer that had published the documents was in Russia, the FBI found. Some of the documents contained numbers and labels that the Justice Department had used to organize the evidence electronically.

But the US government and Mr. Mueller's office hadn't been hacked. Instead, prosecutors say individuals who had access to the evidence in the case may have spread it.

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