Donald Trump’s campaign website was briefly hacked on Tuesday.
New York:
US President Donald Trump’s campaign website was briefly hacked on Tuesday, just a week before the presidential election.
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said in a statement that the website was “downgraded.”
“We are working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack. There was no exposure to sensitive data as none of it is actually stored on the site. The website has been restored, “Murtaugh said.
A New York Times report said Trump’s campaign website was briefly taken over by hackers and the hack lasted less than 30 minutes.
The newspaper said in a screen posted on Trump’s website – donaldjtrump.com – that the hackers claimed to have compromised “multiple devices” that gave them access to the president and his relatives “most internal and secret conversations” , including classified information.
Hackers also accused the Trump administration of participating in the origins of the coronavirus and of cooperating with “foreign actors manipulating the 2020 election.”
The NYT added that the hackers appeared to be looking to generate cryptocurrency and invited visitors to donate cryptocurrency to one of two funds – “ Yes, share the data ” and the other labeled “ No, don’t share the data. ”
“After the deadline we will compare the funds and carry out the will of the world,” the hackers wrote, without specifying a deadline. The hackers also posted what they said was their encryption key on the Trumps campaign site.
With less than a week before the elections, the downgrade has highlighted the cybersecurity risks facing election campaigns.
The report says intelligence agencies are closely monitoring hacking groups, including Iranian and Russian-backed teams, who attempted to break into election-related systems and were implicated in military operations. influence in recent weeks.
Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe identified Iran and Russia as two countries responsible for disinformation and some limited intrusions into voter registration databases.
Trump told a campaign rally in Arizona last week that “No one is hacked. To be hacked you need someone with 197 I.Q. and they need about 15% of your password.”
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