Alfa Bank lawsuit, Sussman indictment rekindle wars over Trump Organization computer links

The computer data dispute centers on an allegation that emerged late in the campaign – that a server affiliated with the Trump Organization had repeated communications months earlier with a server for Alfa Bank based in London. Russia. The claim is based on records from the Domain Name System, or DNS, a type of digital phone book that matches a domain name, usually a bunch of words, with an Internet protocol address, as a number. Such logs show when one computer looks for another, but the logs do not explain the nature of any communication.