Crypto scammers deface Trump campaign website one week from elections

Crypto scammers deface Trump campaign website one week from elections

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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