Donald Trump Campaign Website Hacked

JAKARTA - The campaign website of the President of the United States (US) Donald Trump, donaldjtrump.com, has been hacked. The hackers even delivered a striking message to the incumbent presidential candidate.

Hacking was first noticed by Twitter user, Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler. Through his Twitter account he shared the hacked page of the donaldtrump campaign website.

"The world is fed up with the fake news that President Donald J Trump spreads every day. It is time to let the world know the truth," wrote the hacker on the Trump campaign website as quoted by CNET, Wednesday, October 28.

. @ 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

Apart from that, the hackers also claimed to have inside information about the origin of the coronavirus and other information that discredited Trump, the hackers gave two Monero addresses. Monero is a cryptocurrency that is easy to send but quite difficult to trace.

Not long after, the website returned to normal in about 30 minutes. The website fix came after Trump stated that nothing was hacked, "except by someone with an IQ of 197 and he or she needs about 15 percent of your passwords." said Trump.

Homeland Security and the NSA said the hack was quite serious, and proved that many vulnerabilities were exploited by criminals to break into government and corporate networks.

In response to this, Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the campaign website was working with law enforcement to determine the source of the attacks, but he also denied sensitive data was taken from the site.

"There's no exposure to sensitive data because nothing is actually stored on the site," Murtaugh said.

The hackers also seem to be just destroying and stealing cryptocurrency from the Trump campaign site. Unfortunately, the FBI and other security forces have not responded to this case.

It is known that in July, hackers had hijacked dozens of Twitter accounts of famous people including former US President Barack Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates to peddle bitcoin scams. Three people have been charged with their alleged role in the fraud, which raised more than US $ 100,000.