Trump Campaign Website Briefly Defaced by Hackers
The official Trump campaign website was targeted and briefly defaced by hackers earlier Tuesday night.
A message went on on the site, apparently from cryptocurrency scammers, featured a message reading in part, “The world has had enough of the fake news spreaded daily by president donald j. trump.”
Trump campaign website now seems to be down. This is part of the message that was showing on the site just a few minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/TR9GnpcMLb
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 27, 2020
Per the New York Times, it was first noticed by journalist Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler.
.@realDonaldTrump's campaign website has been hacked. Doing research for a climate change article and this is what pops up: pic.twitter.com/Kjc2ELSdAV
— Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler (@ggreschler) October 27, 2020
The Trump campaign confirmed the hack in a statement saying they’re “working with law enforcement authorities” on it and adding, “There was no exposure to sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site.”
