US President’s Campaign Website Hacked

Ahead of the 2020 presidential elections next week, President Trump’s website was defaced for a brief period on Tuesday. The website was reverted to its original content within a few minutes of the hack taking place.

A message posted on the upcoming events page of Donaldjtrump.com said that the world had ‘had enough’ of the ‘fake news’ spread by Trump.

”This site was seized. The world has had enough of the fake-news spread by President Donald J. Trump. It is time to allow the world to know the truth”, the message read.

The message claimed of having access to “classified information” that the “trump-gov is involved in the origin of the COVID-19”.

The hackers also claimed to have dirt on Trump and posted details of a cryptocurrency account people could transfer funds to if they wanted to see the information released publicly.

The defacing of the Donaldjtrump.com was first spotted by New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth and later many posted the screenshots of the hacked website

The Trump campaign, however, said there was no exposure to sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site.

“The website has been restored," campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement.