Scammers hacked Donald Trump’s campaign website
On Tuesday, cryptocurrency scammers hacked the US President Donal Trump’s official campaign website. It was defaced by the hackers and this defacement went on for almost 30 minutes. Journalist Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler was among the first people to spot the hack who posted screenshots of Trump’s defaced website on Twitter.
In his tweet, Gabriel mentioned that he was finding an article on climate change when he came across Trump’s out of order website. A text posted on donaldjtrump.com read, “The site was seized.” “The world has had enough of the fake-news spread daily by president Donald j trump. it is time to allow the world to know the truth. Multiple devices were compromised that gave full access to trump and relatives. Most internal and secret conversations strictly classified information is exposed proving that trump-gov is involved in the origin of the coronavirus. We have evidence that completely discredits Mr Trump as a president. Proving his criminal involvement and cooperation with foreign actors manipulating the 2020 elections. the US citizens have no choice,” the message continued.
Soon after authorities noticed, the website went offline and was made live without the message posted by hackers.
Responding to the hack, Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said that the “website was defaced and we are working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack. There was no exposure to sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site. The website has been restored.”
However, this was not the first incidence when Trump’s digital property has been harmed. Earlier, there was news about a Dutch security researcher who claimed to got access to Trump’s Twitter account by guessing his password – “mega220!”. He revealed that there was no two-factor authentication on Trump’s twitter account, which gave him access to his account. However, after hacking into his account, a message sent to US-CERT, a cybersecurity agency to inform them about the security lapse.
Surprisingly, a few days back, Trump said that nobody gets hacked. “Nobody gets hacked. To get hacked you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15% of your password,” he had said.
