{"id":99341,"date":"2020-10-28T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/crypto-scammers-deface-trump-campaign-website-one-week-from-elections\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:24:50","slug":"crypto-scammers-deface-trump-campaign-website-one-week-from-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-scammers-deface-trump-campaign-website-one-week-from-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"# Crypto scammers deface Trump campaign website one week from elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Crypto scammers deface Trump campaign website one week from elections <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTAvZjA0ZTBkZjctYTMxNC00YzRkLWExODEtNjRlNTJhMTliMWZhLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-v-5a136f3a=\"\">One of United States President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign websites was briefly defaced yesterday, according to an Oct. 28 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/10\/27\/trumps-campaign-website-hacked-by-cryptocurrency-scammers\/?tpcc=ECTW2020&amp;guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL3dJcU5BVFh0RVU_YW1wPTE&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC2TspfaTLamgEaMs_pu-dtGlr4y1p_jBOuzJGDsWNbOx3ZYWfeH6to-ljD_Fs7Zg2vN0HYnh-GtZqFAcRoJ1R_uPLVZHWOBvkAXHt_JCKqgtz_WHOaRkilujGs_PsWZ9o9-XJgXLtkRPmUWtdthAr8THnC3Ct4s2p6YTr4yN9xj\">article<\/a> on TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers managed to replace donaldjtrump.com\u2019s usual campaign rhetoric and request for donations with a spoof of the FBI\u2019s \u201cthis site has been seized\u201d message.<\/p>\n<p>The unknown attackers claimed to have obtained \u201cstrictly classified information\u201d, and encouraged people to essentially vote on whether they wanted the data released, using payments to two Monero wallets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is time to allow the world to know truth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the insider information reportedly on offer was evidence discrediting Trump as president and connecting his government to \u201cthe origin of the coronavirus.\u201d There is no evidence to suggest that the individuals involved possess any such information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no indication that the attackers actually managed to do anything more than deface the website. This contained no sensitive data, according to Trump\u2019s campaign communications director, Tim Murtaugh, who confirmed the attack in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Earlier this evening, the Trump campaign 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimMurtaugh\/status\/1321242876400046087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump recently claimed that \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kateoflahertyuk\/2020\/10\/20\/trump-nobody-gets-hacked-video-goes-viral\/#1585243b529a\">nobody gets hacked<\/a>\u201d, just days before having his <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/oct\/22\/trump-twitter-hacked-dutch-researcher-password\">Twitter account hacked<\/a> by a Dutch researcher who claimed he guessed the password as \u201cmaga2020\u201d on his fifth attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency world is eagerly watching the U.S. presidential election race and wondering how the results could potentially affect the price of Bitcoin and other tokens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-scammers-deface-trump-campaign-website-one-week-from-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Crypto scammers deface Trump campaign website one week from elections &#8221; One of United States President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign websites was briefly defaced yesterday, according to an Oct. 28 article on TechCrunch. Hackers managed to replace donaldjtrump.com\u2019s usual campaign rhetoric and request for donations with a spoof of the FBI\u2019s \u201cthis site has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/f04e0df7-a314-4c4d-a181-64e52a19b1fa.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74963,4965],"class_list":["post-99341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-monero","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}