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The FBI seal is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, DC on July 5, 2016. The office of the Director of National Intelligence has rejected a request from the Florida congressional delegation to be informed of the claim that governments Foreigners have targeted voters to sow electoral disinformation.
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The Trump campaign website was briefly hacked Tuesday night, and the culprits posted a message riddled with typographical errors on the site threatening to reveal “evidence” of the president’s “criminal involvement” in an alleged scheme to influence. in next week’s elections.
The hackers, whose identity was not immediately known, only managed to access the “about” page of Trump’s website. The rest of the website remained intact.
Within minutes of the breach being discovered, the Trump campaign took down the site, but not before some news organizations were able to capture the ominous message.
“This site was seized,” read the message in bold under the insignia of the FBI and the Department of Justice. “Various devices were compromised that gave trump and family full access … we have evidence that completely discredits Mr. Trump as president. Which shows his criminal involvement and cooperation (sic) with foreign actors manipulating the 2020 elections.”
The letter also claimed that the hackers had obtained “classified information … which proves that the Trump administration is involved in the origin of the corona virus.”
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh confirmed the website was “defaced” but said personal information about donors or supporters had not been tampered with.
“We are working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack,” Murtaugh said in a statement. “There was no exposure to sensitive data because one of it is actually stored on the site. The website has been restored.”
The FBI declined to comment.
The hackers’ message also included two PGP codes along with prompts for people to click on one if they wanted “strictly classified information” disclosed and the other if they wanted it to be kept secret. Such codes are often used in cryptocurrency scams, according to TechCrunch.
News of the attack came as President Donald Trump was addressing a campaign rally in Nebraska.
Despite the hackers’ claims, there was no immediate indication that classified or personal information was exposed.
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