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The campaign for the re-election of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in Wisconsin, was the target of a hacker attack that resulted in a ‘hole’ of 2.3 million dollars (about 2 million euros), announced the Party State Republican this Thursday.
According to the Associated Press, the state of Wisconsin said in a statement that hackers attacked and stole Trump’s re-election funds on this important battlefield, less than a week before Presidential (and November) Election Day.
“Cybercriminals, using a sophisticated phishing attack, stole funds, altered bills and committed wire fraud,” Wisconsin Republican President Andrew Hitt said in the note.
“By committing this crime and in this format, the hackers showed a deep level of familiarity with the party’s operations in this campaign,” he said.
The familiarity included knowing enough about the Wisconsin Republican Party partners to falsify the company’s invoices, who ended up sending money to hackers and not suppliers – in this case campaign correspondence and hats for Trump supporters.
Hitt said that although the party has lost millions from its campaign efforts, it still hopes to run with “full capacity” to support Trump’s re-election.
The attack resorted to a Scheme of “interaction with business email”, common among hackers posing as business partners of an organization and requesting payments on their behalf.
The Wisconsin Republican Party also said it became aware of the attack on October 22 and notified the FBI the next day.
Without clarifying yet whether it is a financial or political crime, the organization said it rules out the possibility that hackers have stolen other data.
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