Trump Campaign Website Hit by Hackers Touting Crypto Scam
The president's campaign website was briefly compromised on Tuesday, as hackers looked to fleece cryptocurrency from unsuspecting supporters in the final days before the 2020 election.
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President Donald Trump’s campaign website was reportedly hacked Tuesday evening. Hackers claim to have “classified information” about Trump and the origin of the coronavirus. They asked crypto users to decide whether the information should be released or kept secret. Tim Murtaugh, Director of Communications for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, confirmed in a tweet: Earlier this evening, the Trump campaign website was defaced and we are working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack. Part of the website donaldjtrump.com was made to....
Just one week before the election, President Donald Trump’s website was briefly defaced by crypto scammers. One of United States President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign websites was briefly defaced yesterday, according to an Oct. 28 article on TechCrunch.Hackers managed to replace donaldjtrump.com’s usual campaign rhetoric and request for donations with a spoof of the FBI’s “This site has been seized” message.The unknown attackers claimed to have obtained “strictly classified information” and encouraged people to essentially vote on whether they wanted the data released, using....
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