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deminks

(11,006 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 12:46 PM May 2017

Report: FBI Looking Into Attempted Cyberattack On Trump Organization

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/abc-fbi-investigating-attempted-cyberattack-trump-organization?utm_content=bufferbb571&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

A recent attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization is under investigation by the FBI, ABC News reported Friday.

The article did not mention the country or region of the world where the alleged hack originated. But investigating the computer network of the President’s company would be delicate for the FBI, given that the bureau’s agents are currently probing possible ties between Trump campaign associates and Russian operatives working to influence the 2016 election.

Eric Trump, executive vice president of the family real estate business, declined to confirm or deny whether he and his brother Donald Jr. were brought to the FBI’s New York headquarters to discuss the attempted hack, as ABC reported. He denied the company’s systems were compromised.

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Anonymous law enforcement officials told ABC that President Donald Trump’s sons were brought in to discuss the attempted hack on May 8, the day before the President abruptly fired FBI director James Comey.

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Report: FBI Looking Into Attempted Cyberattack On Trump Organization (Original Post) deminks May 2017 OP
Let Eric handle it. tazkcmo May 2017 #1
Who from overseas wants to hack them. Demtexan May 2017 #2
putin setting up an excuse for connections OriginalGeek May 2017 #3
It was pointed out recently, that his businesses are very insecure. blogslut May 2017 #4
The door is wide open for his Russian master dalton99a May 2017 #5
Trump's a rank amateur Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 #6

tazkcmo

(7,286 posts)
1. Let Eric handle it.
Fri May 26, 2017, 12:51 PM
May 2017

He's bound to fuck it up, call the FBI for help and then go to prison with his daddy.

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
2. Who from overseas wants to hack them.
Fri May 26, 2017, 12:53 PM
May 2017

The FBI is checking this out.

Eric is saying nothing happened.

More to come.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
3. putin setting up an excuse for connections
Fri May 26, 2017, 12:56 PM
May 2017

looky there! see? they's hackin me bigly and that's why it looks like i has a link to Russher!

blogslut

(37,955 posts)
4. It was pointed out recently, that his businesses are very insecure.
Fri May 26, 2017, 12:59 PM
May 2017
https://gizmodo.com/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago-we-1795276155

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Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago. We Tested It.

Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida’s coastal waterway. But not for fish.

We parked a 17-foot motor boat in a lagoon about 800 feet from the back lawn of the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, and pointed a two-foot wireless antenna that resembled a potato gun toward the club. Within a minute, we spotted three weakly encrypted Wi-Fi networks. We could have hacked them in less than five minutes, but we refrained.

A few days later, we drove through the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., with the same antenna and aimed it at the clubhouse. We identified two open Wi-Fi networks that anyone could join without a password. We resisted the temptation.

We also visited two of President Donald Trump’s other family-run retreats, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a golf club in Sterling, Va. Our inspections found weak and open Wi-Fi networks, wireless printers without passwords, servers with outdated and vulnerable software, and unencrypted login pages to back-end databases containing sensitive information...
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