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Trump's Campaign 'Says It Has Been Hacked', Reports CNN (cnn.com) 210

Posted by EditorDavid from the pol-position dept.
CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump's campaign said Saturday in a statement that it had been hacked.

Politico reported earlier Saturday that it had received emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump's campaign operation. "These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process," Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement to CNN.

Cheung pointed to a recent report published by Microsoft that said Iranian operatives had ramped up their attempts to influence and monitor the US presidential election by creating fake news outlets targeting liberal and conservative voters and by trying to hack an unnamed presidential campaign... Still, it's not clear whether Iran was responsible for the hack. CNN has reached out to the Iranian mission to the United Nations for comment...

Politico reported it had received emails that contained internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official and a [271-page] research dossier the campaign had put together on Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. The dossier included what the Trump campaign identified as Vance's potential vulnerabilities...

In 2016, days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks published nearly 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee server.
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  • Russia (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Local ID10T ( 790134 ) <ID10T.L.USER@gmail.com> on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:35PM (#64695396) Homepage

    "Russia, if you are listening..."

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Ol Olsoc ( 1175323 )

      "Russia, if you are listening..."

      Beat me to it, Putin's puppet, who beseeched Russia to hack Hillary, so that he could put her in jail, not only deserves to be hacked, but every thing should be made public, and not stop. I mean, it's what he would want.

      He's a fair man, amirite?

      • Re: Russia (Score:3, Insightful)

        by dbialac ( 320955 )
        You really have been brainwashed. Our media is partisan. It is no longer neutral. You need to treat it as such and read multiple news sources to get to the truth. The best law enforcement agency in the world didn't find anything, and yet you continue with this fib.

    • "Russia, if you are listening..."

      Hey! Sorry we can't come to the phone, we're a little busy, but if you leave a message we'll get back to you as soon as we can. If it's something we're not going to like, try simply shouting it out the nearest high-floor window -- be sure to lean way, way out so people can hear you ...

  • Well, ... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Savage-Rabbit ( 308260 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:39PM (#64695402)

    Trump's Campaign 'Says It Has Been Hacked'

    Well, this certainly couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of people.

  • Bullshit (Score:4, Insightful)

    by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:46PM (#64695416)

    As the article relates, they have provided no evidence for this claim. Further, we know the convicted felon is a known liar, such as his most recent lie [politifact.com] about being in a helicopter crash years ago.

    Unless, and until, any evidence is shown for this "hack", it can only be considered a political stunt to get attention for the narcissist. That is all.

  • Surprise, Surprise (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Zontar The Mindless ( 9002 ) <plasticfish@info.gmail@com> on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:51PM (#64695430) Homepage

    And this, kids, is what happens when you hire for ideology conformity first, and competence second.

    (Project 2025 aims to ensure the Federal government follows this hiring methodology. The Pendleton Act, which it seeks to ignore if not overturn, is there for a reason.)

  • Hostile forces (Score:5, Funny)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:52PM (#64695432)

    "These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States

    Nah... Just foreign sources hostile to Trump. That leaves only a few billion suspects.

    • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Probably closer to 7 billion.

  • So a republican did it (Score:4, Funny)

    by thegarbz ( 1787294 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:53PM (#64695434)

    "intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process" - that definitely sounds like the calling card of the Cult of Trump right there. Clearly they got hacked by a republican.

  • Oh no! (Score:2, Funny)

    by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )

    Anyway I had Italian sausage tortellini for dinner and it was fantastic. Anyone grilling this weekend?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by SeaFox ( 739806 )

      Nah, it's supposed to rain starting tomorrow and I just spent the day moving a bunch of boxes between two storage units. Got a quick dinner of West-Mex fast food. Gonna take a shower and chill the rest of the night I think.

      Too bad about that hacking. Now things may be released that paint Trump in a worse light, if that's possible.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ndykman ( 659315 )

      Dang, it is cooling off a bit, should break out the grill and have a steak. Thanks for the idea.

    • Whether this matters. Although I'm not sure anything could shake the Public's love of Trump. Trump got caught taking a 10 million dollar bribe from prime minister and it's didn't even register.

      No that's partially because legacy media outlets are protecting Trump in order to keep all that sweet sweet ad revenue flowing in. And also it doesn't help that they are owned by billionaires who are looking forward to the massive tax cuts and all the deregulation that would follow a Trump dictatorship.

      But sti

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by godrik ( 1287354 )

      I have ribs in the oven!

    • Anyway I had Italian sausage tortellini for dinner and it was fantastic.

      That sounds really tasty. We're doing Greek chicken bowls.

  • If Iran hates us so much, why would they not want Grab 'Em By The Wherever in charge of our country?

    • Soleimani

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by godrik ( 1287354 )

      I don't know it is a foreign state actor or what.

      But in general, generating chaos is a good thing from a foreign adversary's perspective. Making US democracy more of a mess (is that even possible at this point?) is a win for them, independently of who gets elected.

    • Because, as he bleeds America dry, he would simultaneously arm Israel to the teeth and unconditionally support whatever kind of war they get involved in. Potentially one with Iran.

      Democrats seem mostly on board with the same, but at least there's a chance for some kind of change. Whereas it's literally religious doctrine for Republicans to support Israel.

      • Democrats seem mostly on board with the same, but at least there's a chance for some kind of change.

        I was encouraged by Kamala calling for a cease fire in relatively clear terms. I hope that democratic voters get behind that, which I think there's a good chance of, so that there's a chance she sticks to it. The US ceasing support for genocide in Gaza is an important step to cooling down the situation in the region.

        • I would not assume that Iran is motivated to have "peace" between Israel and Hamas. They are currently pulling off a masterful 4-D chess move that helps them, hurts Egypt specifically, makes America look incompetent, and hurts western trade generally. It is in their interest for this situation to continue indefinitely.

          To explain, the Gaza war is a pretext for Iran-backed Houthis to attack shipping entering the Suez Canal. Ships are rerouting to avoid this, costing Egypt billions in transit fees. The cana

  • Our "democratic" process? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @06:01PM (#64695460)

    interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,

    Ever heard of the electoral college? That's to democratic process what Ragu sauce is to Italian cuisine.

    • What's wrong with ragù? Oh, you meant Ragú?
    • You just insulted my entire dinner.....but yes.
    • The opposite. Our form of self-government is the sophisticated cuisine. Democracy is the Ragu version using a simple formula of 50%+1. But there is nothing particularly special about decisions made on the basis of 50%+1. A consensus would be better, but is not very practical. The electoral college was designed to force more of a consensus process that included consideration of the wide range of values and interests in the original colonies. A majority wasn't enough, you needed a majority spread out over a

      • Your government is 50%+1. Except that in your Italian restaurant some customers get priority in service in the kitchen, while others aren't welcome and are actively snubbed by staff every chance they get.

        There's nothing better about the American system than the 50%+1 of general democracy, but there are many things worse about it than other democracies, especially how the electoral college was designed to solve a problem that is not only not relevant in the modern age, but it actively failed to solve that pr

  • "Hacked" - as in I'm dumb and got phished (Score:5, Insightful)

    by zuckie13 ( 1334005 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @06:14PM (#64695500)

    We all know he or one of his subordinates clicked the link in the phishing e-mail and gave up their logon credentials.

    • Makes me wonder why we use terrible email clients so readily. GUI clients tend to be bad. Sylpheed was good at keeping the text/plain, mutt too. When clients show the text/html rendered, people are easier to trick. So why do we do it? Phones and WhatsApp, signal, SMS etc are plain text, media is obvious when it's an attachment.

      • When clients show the text/html rendered, people are easier to trick. So why do we do it?

        For the same reason that letterheads and custom stationery exist. Back when we wanted something better than plaintext emails you couldn't do nearly as much nefarious shit with HTML as you can now.

    • Re: "Hacked" - as in I'm dumb and got phished (Score:5, Insightful)

      by UncleScidhuv ( 7657782 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @07:09PM (#64695606)
      It was probably hard. It to since most of the emails from the Trump campaign look like phishing attempts.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by pezpunk ( 205653 )

      i think any IT security professional will tell you that 99.99$ of the time, "i got hacked" means "i voluntarily gave my data, money, or credentials to someone shady who simply asked for them."

      And when we're dealing with the illiterate ding dongs in the GOP, that number goes up to 100%.

  • Should publish everything... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Bert64 ( 520050 ) <.moc.eeznerif.todhsals. .ta. .treb.> on Saturday August 10, 2024 @06:19PM (#64695510) Homepage

    The voters have a right to know who they're voting for, transparency should be an enforced requirement for any political candidate.

    • The voters have a right to know who they're voting for, transparency should be an enforced requirement for any political candidate.

      While you ponder what that knee-jerk reaction actually entails, here's a quote from the article:

      The research dossier was a 271-page document based on publicly available information about Vance’s past record and statements, with some — such as his past criticisms of Trump — identified in the document as “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.”

    • The voters have a right to know who they're voting for, transparency should be an enforced requirement for any political candidate.

      Riiight ... because that's what you'd be saying if someone had obtained Harris' private communications via hacking.

      I actually remember Slashdot when it was certainly politically leftward, but most posters would still be at least a bit ashamed of saying "privacy is bad, do you have something to hide??"

  • There's a Mike Royko column about this (Score:3)

    by sphealey ( 2855 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @06:32PM (#64695546)

    There's a Mike Royko column about a machine hack being a few points behind where he should be before the election. Then the Chicago Tribune or Channel 5 beat reporter is called to his campaign office, where a brick or bullet was fired through the window. "Lucky nobuddy was hurt. Musta been 2, 3 hunnerd dollars damage. People coulda been killed!. [pause] You gonna write all this up, right?".

    Yeah, sure.

  • Not Vance's biggest vulnerability (Score:5, Funny)

    by ThumpBzztZoom ( 6976422 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @06:34PM (#64695550)

    The dossier included what the Trump campaign identified as Vance's potential vulnerabilities.

    I don't think the dossier is very useful, since it probably doesn't include "Say he fucked a couch," and that has worked way better than any of the facts.

    • The dossier included what the Trump campaign identified as Vance's potential vulnerabilities.

      I don't think the dossier is very useful, since it probably doesn't include "Say he fucked a couch," and that has worked way better than any of the facts.

      Your honesty ("we just make up shit, and it works!") is refreshing ...

  • Could these be from... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Glasswire ( 302197 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @07:05PM (#64695600) Homepage

    ...disgruntled customers of his Mar-A-Lago document selling operation unhappy with the product they got?

    • Re:Could these be from... (Score:4, Funny)

      by lilTimmy ( 6807660 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @07:16PM (#64695624)
      Don't be mean. He only sells the BEST top secret documents. Best at levels that have never been seen before.

      • Nah, the best he shows off to randos to prove he's a big boy. Sometimes he gets things posted to social media... The mediocre stuff he stacks in a disused shower.

        It's possible he only managed to monetize those documents by charging foreign agents Mar-a-lago membership fees, which pretty much tracks with his financial 'acumen'. Without Fred Trump's money, Donald Trump would be a failed used car salesman in jail for fraud.

  • So somebody broke to Trump's bathroom? (Score:4, Funny)

    by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @07:22PM (#64695628)

    That is where he keeps all the really important stuff, right?

    • That is where he keeps all the really important stuff, right?

      Well, that is established best practice (ref Hillary Clinton and email servers).

  • Really hacked??? (Score:5, Funny)

    by magusxxx ( 751600 ) <magusxxx_2000 AT yahoo DOT com> on Saturday August 10, 2024 @07:33PM (#64695658)

    Or did Trump just brag about his password being "DaughterHot!"

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Creepy ( 93888 )

      Not even that hard, username Imgod ir TRUMP!!!, password maga - nobody can crack that! Daughterhot!, that is .3 years by the NSA, no chance that is it. Actually, my guess is username Trump, password: password.

  • Hack or Leak? (Score:3)

    by quantaman ( 517394 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:08PM (#64695704)

    The Trump Campaign is saying hacked (phished), but their credibility on all things is less than zero.

    The only actual evidence seems to be from the source:

    Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”

    So that does sound like they hacked/phished, but they could also be freaked out about an NDA they signed, or a mixture of the two, an insider who escalated their privileges.

    Either way, it seems weird the source flat out told Politico that they would be legally restricted from publishing them, either way, I suspect they'd just since politico refused I'm guessing they'll send to wikileaks or whomever else is willing to published hacked materials nowadays.

  • Baloney (Score:5, Insightful)

    by JustAnotherOldGuy ( 4145623 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:32PM (#64695718) Journal

    I'm of two minds...

    On one hand I seriously doubt any of it is true; I think this is just some attention-getting bullshit. It sounds like they're laying the groundwork for contesting the 2024 election on account of they were 'hacked'.

    BUT,

    On the other hand, what's the chance that Trump hired a competent IT staff and that something like this was inevitable, and that it *did* happen? If so, there are likely to be some juicy, juicy stuff in there.

    • Juicy stuff like what? That they plan to install a dictator and bring us to various shades of dystopia? Not a secret. Maybe we find out that he grabbed another woman by the pussy? Not sure what else you think the big reveal could be.

  • "Pleased to meet you; I am the Devil." (Score:3)

    by Pseudonymous Powers ( 4097097 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @09:21PM (#64695760)
    I am not kidding or even exaggerating when I say that I can't imagine anything being revealed as part of this hack, or any hack, that would be so bad that I can't imagine him hinting at it, joking about it, confessing to it, irrefutably corroborating it, bragging about it, and then actually exaggerating the extent of it in under two minutes the very next time he's allowed access to a microphone.

    • I am not kidding or even exaggerating when I say that I can't imagine anything being revealed as part of this hack, or any hack, that would be so bad that I can't imagine him hinting at it

      Orders from Daddy? I strongly and powerfully don't see any reason why they would tamper with the election?

  • Stop towing some party line and do the investigating yourself. After doing that though you'll probably come to the same conclusion as I ... clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle again. I don't want to vote for any of these ass-hats. God-damned buffoons all of them.

  • Presumption of loyalty (Score:3)

    by Tony Isaac ( 1301187 ) on Saturday August 10, 2024 @09:37PM (#64695780) Homepage

    Trump's #1 value is loyalty. If you are loyal to him, nothing else matters. If you are disloyal to him, nothing else matters.

    It's natural that he would assume that all of his campaign staff are loyal to him, and would never intentionally leak internal communications to the press. Therefore, it must have been a hack.

  • He wants to repeat the Clinton thing with Harris and this is the "accuse them of what you're doing" part. Remember, both the DNC and the RNC got hacked last time this game was played, but for magical reasons (Russia) only the DNC stuff got released.

    We know Trump's maintained back channels to Russia, from prior to his presidency all the way through it. Do you really think those channels are gone when he's such a useful idiot / unwitting asset?

    • Do you really think those channels are gone when he's such a useful idiot / unwitting asset?

      Do you really think he doesn't know he's working towards Putin's goals? I think he's dumb enough to think that would be a good idea, and also dumb enough to think he was working with him and not for him, for the future of the white "race" which his family has always been all about the supremacy of.

  • ⦠why should anyone leave you in charge of a country.

  • Missed opportunity (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Vegan Cyclist ( 1650427 ) on Sunday August 11, 2024 @12:21AM (#64695948) Homepage

    Something's really off with this.

    Shouldn't he be blaming Crooked Joe Biden for hacking his campaign? Or the FBI? Or Hilary Clinton?

    Since when does he actually blame the culprit?

    Very odd.

  • to 00000000 - I mean, nobody would guess that, right? So much denial that it was real I think it was totally true.

  • So which disgruntled staffer dumped their email to the press? Its makes a lot more sense than what ever crap the Trump campaign is trying to spin. And if their had been a breach, the FBI would have been on it.

  • Dear Trump campaign (Score:3)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:24AM (#64696384)

    "Your computers are being used by criminals!"

    'We know.' :-)

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