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Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers (techcrunch.com) 108

Posted by BeauHD from the another-day-another-hack dept.
President Trump's campaign website was briefly and partially hacked Tuesday afternoon as unknown adversaries took over the "About" page and replaced it with what appeared to be a scam to collect cryptocurrency. TechCrunch reports: There is no indication, despite the hackers' claims, that "full access to trump and relatives" was achieved or "most internal and secret conversations strictly classified information" were exposed. The hack seemingly took place shortly after 4 PM Pacific time. The culprits likely gained access to the donaldjtrump.com web server backend and replaced the "About" page with a long stretch of obfuscated javascript producing a parody of the FBI "this site has been seized" message.

"the world has had enough of the fake-news spreaded daily by president donald j trump," the new site read. "it is time to allow the world to know truth." Claiming to have inside information on the "origin of the corona virus" and other information discrediting Trump, the hackers provided two Monero addresses. Monero is a cryptocurrency that's easy to send but quite difficult to track. For this reason it has become associated with unsavory operations such as this hack. One address was for people that wanted the "strictly classified information" released, the other for those who would prefer to keep it secret. After an unspecified deadline the totals of cryptocurrency would be compared and the higher total would determine what was done with the data. "The website was reverted to its original content within a few minutes of the hack taking place," the report adds. "There is no evidence to suggest that any sensitive data, such as donator information, was accessed, but until the site administrators investigate the event thoroughly it is a remote possibility."
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  • Scammers in the Trump campaign?! (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    The whole Trump campaign is nothing but a scam for Trump to get his uneducated racist supporters to pay his legal bills.

    Lock Him Up!
    (with his already jailed co-conspirators)

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by damn_registrars ( 1103043 )
      We will eventually find ourselves asking the question of whether or not we can prosecute an ex president for crimes committed before or while holding office. Being as he has stacked the supreme court - and it is very likely to end up there - the answer will likely result in a no. After that we will see even more wheels fall off of our democracy. There is more than enough evidence to indict him for criminal charges and hold him to trial; the question is whether we could do that before either he or our dem
      • The bar for prosecuting crimes committed by an ex-president before or during his term should be high, else it will just turn into a tool to punish or harrass political opponents (not uncommon in some other countries). But as I understand it, this immunity is a tradition rather than a law in the US. The question isn't whether you can prosecute him,\but whether you should. And after that it becomes just another case, not something that has to go to the Supreme Court.

        • The question isn't whether you can prosecute him,\but whether you should. And after that it becomes just another case, not something that has to go to the Supreme Court.

          Right, but then he appeals his way upwards, claiming some constitutional defense for his actions. And conceivably the court decides to hear the case, to avoid having any dirt he has on his appointees coming out.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        Expanding the Supreme Court must be very high priority for Biden, and then reforming it to remove the politics from appointments.

        Alternatively he could try to impeach Kavanagh. That might have the added benefit of making it possible to revisit any decisions he was involved in.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Nidi62 ( 1525137 )

        We will eventually find ourselves asking the question of whether or not we can prosecute an ex president for crimes committed before

        Quite likely yes, we can, legally. But realistically no, we won't.

        or while holding office.

        More than likely no, unless it is something even more egregious than Nixon. Prosecuting a former president for crimes committed while in office opens up a dangerous can of worms, setting a precedent that could conceivably allow for political prosecution of rivals that may have committed acts that are marginally/questionably criminal or, especially if a president is able to get a Congressional and Supreme Court majority, simply retroactively

    • Comment removed (Score:4, Informative)

      by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:12AM (#60657524)
      Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by Nidi62 ( 1525137 )

        Riiight, riddle me this....who is more racist, the orange clown who got exactly jack shit done during his 4 years because congress was gridlocked

        Trump had a Republican majority in both houses for the first 2 years. No Obamacare repeal/replacement (they have no replacement plan), no massive investment in infrastructure (the one part of Trump's platform that was actually correct-America's infrastructure sucks), couldn't build his ineffectual and overpriced wall (that Mexico was never going to pay for and Trump had to raid DoD-pro military my ass- funds just to make repairs that he later claimed was new wall), renegotiate NAFTA (all we got was NAFTA 2

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by jay age ( 757446 )

        You make some valid points, even though they don't exonerate Trump in any way of his failings. He wasn't so ineffective in collusion with foreign powers, cronyism and corruption you know.

        I reply to your message for another reason though. Jimmy Carter was lot better than people give him credit for. Don't listen to republican propaganda, look at US statistics during and shortly after his presidency. Lot of things Reagan got credit for were his work.

  • Seriously, why are these campaigns not taking security seriously?

    I don't care what party you are; you should do your voters right and hire professionals to cover your ass.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Skapare ( 16644 )

      the weak link is a human. you are right, they need professionals doing this, not humans.

    • Re:Oof. This shouldn't be happening. (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Rockoon ( 1252108 ) on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:44PM (#60656750)
      Are you sure they didnt?

      Read the information given. They undid what the hackers were doing in only a few minutes, which says to me that the admins were literally ready and waiting to do so.

      Leading to the conclusion that they knew there was an infiltration attempt taking place but were successfully stopping it, and that they then catfished it to gather information, and then went back to successfully stopping it minutes later.

      • They undid what the hackers were doing in only a few minutes, which says to me that the admins were literally ready and waiting to do so.

        Physically, the President of the US is protected by the Secret Service . . . guys wearing sunglasses with radios in their ears and Uzis in their pockets.

        Although they do not advertise it, I'm fairly certain that the Secret Service also has a "Cyber Branch" that protects the President online.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Cederic ( 9623 )

          Although they do not advertise it, I'm fairly certain that the Secret Service also has a "Cyber Branch" that protects the President online.

          I suspect they outsource that to the NSA or some such external agency.

          However, even so, I'd hope the Secret Service are not providing IT security for a campaign website. That would be politicising their role.

  • Barron did it (Score:2, Informative)

    by Skapare ( 16644 )

    i think Barron Trump did it.

  • Did they guess the password on the 4th try again?
  • Who is the boogeyman in this case? China? Iran? Iraq? Afganistan? Thailand?

  • ... determine what was done with the data.

    Translation: Send us money and we might do something you like.

    We already have that service: It's called Federal Government.

    What idiot would enable this grab for cash?

  • Trump doesn't really have a campaign (Score:5, Interesting)

    by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:28AM (#60656852)
    the billionaire types that bankroll these sorts of things didn't trust Trump with the money, so his campaign is kinda broke. It's why if you're following the election you keep reading about Trump pulling ads in battleground states like Florida.

    This isn't to say there isn't a campaign to re-elect Trump, just not one he's in charge of. Instead the Super PACs are running things and Trump is just stumping at rallies.

    That said, spare a moment to think of this: The folks running these Super PACs trust Trump enough to run the country but not enough to run a campaign...

    • What I find interesting with the Trump campaign is that he doesn't run on a platform, go to his site and there's no indication of what he intends to do if elected.

      • go to his site and there's no indication of what he intends to do if elected.

        My crystal ball says: Ignoring the "China flu" until there's a vaccine, blaming the bad economy on Democrats, and four more years of incoherent late night twitter rants.

    • The folks running these Super PACs trust Trump enough to run the country but not enough to run a campaign...

      They saw what happened in NY to get the entire Trump clan banned form administering a charity.

    • Take that a step further - they also presumably believe they will have some control over Trump should he be reelected. You know, when he will have no further use for them, and he will be emboldened the frankly cult-like support of the rank-and-file followers who manage to be religiously devoted to a man that thinks they are garbage. He does not exactly have a track record of loyalty to anyone who does not offer him some immediate advantage.

      This should work out super-well for them.

      They'd be better off

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Nidi62 ( 1525137 )

        Take that a step further - they also presumably believe they will have some control over Trump should he be reelected. You know, when he will have no further use for them, and he will be emboldened the frankly cult-like support of the rank-and-file followers who manage to be religiously devoted to a man that thinks they are garbage. He does not exactly have a track record of loyalty to anyone who does not offer him some immediate advantage.

        This should work out super-well for them.

        The "good news" (from their point of view) is that Trump is easily influenced. The "bad news" is that Trump is easily influenced. As you correctly point out, there's no guarantee that their influence will be the one he ultimately follows. As often as not he would simply follow what he last heard, which led to a lot of his early flipflops.

      • "Take that a step further - they also presumably believe they will have some control over Trump should he be reelected. You know, when he will have no further use for them,"

        He will still be broke. His golf trips aren't paying the bills. Even if he did twice as much golfing in term 2 he'd still owe the Russians hundreds of millions of dollars.

        • Dictators have far more lucrative ways to raise money. They also aren't super-big on paying their debts, an army is a very effective deterrent to bill collectors.

    • That said, spare a moment to think of this: The folks running these Super PACs trust Trump enough to run the country but not enough to run a campaign...

      They trust him to run it into the ground, so they can pick up the pieces at fire sale prices. But he won't get the chance (and neither will they) if he's in charge of his own campaign, which he probably wants to lose so that he can stop doing what Uncle Vlad tells him. Although I'm not sure that would be a good idea, because at that point he will have outlived his usefulness...

  • In reality Trump is just mining cryptocurrency on your computer in an attempt to pay down his crippling debt.

  • 250,000 dead, 0 responsibility? (Score:3)

    by backslashdot ( 95548 ) on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:43AM (#60657570)

    250,000 people died much earlier than they would have normally if it wasn't for Trump. He got rid of existing pandemic protocols that would have stopped the virus in China. Plans that evolved and developed as we faced the first SARS virus (2003), MERS, and Ebola.

    Tweet from October 2019: https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/s... [twitter.com]

    Trumps contribution: Telling people not to wear masks not to worry about the virus, who cares if it spreads to old people?

    • That's probably overstating it, but not by a whole lot. People would've died even if we'd done everything right, but not nearly as many.

  • Nelson Muntz sends his regards. http://nelson-haha.api-meal.eu... [api-meal.eu]

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