Graham says FBI has his phone after possible hack

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/02/24 12:34 PM ET


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the FBI has his phone after someone tried to scam him by impersonating a communication from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), raising the possibility that one of the senators’ phones was hacked.

“My phone is in the hands of the FBI now,” Graham said at the Hill & Valley Forum in remarks reported by The Washington Times. “So I get a message, I think, from Schumer, it ain’t from Schumer, and next thing you know, my phone’s, I don’t know what. Anything you can create apparently can be hacked.”

Taylor Reidy, a spokesperson for Graham, said the possible hack is now under investigation. “The Sergeant at Arms is investigating a possible hack of Sen. Graham’s phone,” Reidy said.

A Democratic aide said Graham should have been instantly suspicious of any text message purportedly from Schumer because the Democratic leader is known for using an old-school LG flip phone — a relic from the 1990s, before texting caught on.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4639073-graham-fbi-phone-hack/

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LOL @ Schumer!

[bucolic_frolic]

1. 3G Chuck? How does he do that?

My carrier made me upgrade to 4G. 3G's don't work anymore. Everyone in the modern era is at 5G.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. LG was still making flip phones until recently

so he may have a "later" model LG flip that can do 4G LTE before they stopped making them.

[Haggard Celine]

12. My phone is 3G.

It's an iPhone, and when I took it to the store I was going to buy a 5G phone, they told me that it wasn't necessary. They said my phone would continue to work just fine. I was glad that I didn't have to shell out any money and besides, I just didn't want to switch phones. I like my phone just fine.

[SpankMe]

15. 3G? Heck, I'm still using smoke signals. n/t

[JoseBalow]

10. I was also required to upgrade by ATT

I now have a 4G flip phone. It's made by Alcatel.

Texting has been available on mobile phones from the start, before there were flip phones.

[marble falls]

2. I'm with Chuck. I only get the level of tech I feel I grasp. My wife got me a smart phone five years ago ...

... I've made about 10 calls out and maybe have received 10, mostly from the wife. I have no aps. I have never been able to answer it without waiting for the ringing to stop and then open the phone and call back. I haven't a clue on how to sent photos.

The only tech I spend on is high quality, highly recommended virus and anti-ad software for my one computer and my little used and out of date android.

I'd vote for Chuck for any office I could legally vote on him for, after Kamala Harris decides to run or not, he'd be a great President.

[LeftInTX]

7. I fail the call back thing too. I call and they call while I'm calling them.

I try to merge the call. Put the call on hold, but it always ends badly. Their voice mail invades the conversation.
LOL I'm not a ludite, I should look up what to do.

[marble falls]

18. I'm not quite a Ludite, but if I can't get the need or the operation of new tech, I do without it ...

I don't want to to do the tech version of using an excercycle as a clothes drop.

[hibbing]

3. one of the senators' phones

I sure wish they had the phone he used to text all the traitors including the insurrectionist in chief.

Peace

[LeftInTX]

5. Schumer? What? He doesn't text? He herds cats via voice mail?

[getagrip_already]

6. Could be a lot of reasons the fbi has lindsays phone

Most involve subpoenas.

None involve hackers.

Hmmmmmmm.

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. "My phone was hacked!" is the go to excuse

for explaining why your phone has porn on it. Some times, explicitly illegal porn.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

9. Don't worry Lindsey

Don't worry, it's just the Russians reminding you, Lindsey, of all the kompromat they have and want to make sure you're loyal to Orange Jebus until the end.

[boyedav1969]

11. Simply receiving a text doesn't hack a phone...

...unless it's running an OS that hasn't been patched for SMS vulnerabilities. Depending on how old his phone was, it may have been EOS. The other option, if it really was hacked, is that the SMS contained a payload that he clicked on.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

17. OMG this story is so weird

"Ah know Ah was hacked!"

[LeftInTX]

19. He likely clicked a link if he thought it was someone he knew.

It can happen when you are rushed an not paying attention.

I got this weird notification from FB. Said they were going to delete my page. I was on my phone and rushed at the time. I clicked the link. I got to a point where it asked for password. (Now google often does this for various access stuff etc) But I just got a hinky feeling and decided I better check it out on a computer. I'm glad I did. It was a hijack scam.

For some reason I often get weird emails and texts from my party chair. However, it's amateurs involved.

[DoBW]

13. what's on Graham's hard drive?

we can more useless fantasy hearings with Russian lying and missing informants blah blah blah

[SKKY]

14. Please, for the love of all that is good in this world, let the texts, images, call logs come out!!!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

16. Bottom line, please?

So how did Graham know it wasn't Chuck Schumer? Maybe he got an upgrade? JFC

And why involve the FBI?

[marble falls]

20. Cuz he's a Senanator. Better than the rest o' us. I'll bet someone tried to hack him. I just wonder what the FBI will ..

... do when his stash of photos turn up, "See! I tol' y'all I wuz hacked!"

[MorbidButterflyTat]

21. Looks like you mixed in some Irish there!

"Care ta join me on the verandah for some mint juleps and dueling pistols? Ah got mah honah to considah, sahr!"





My apologies to Southerners.

[FSogol]

22. Can we skip ahead to the part where the FBI digs up the yards at all the places Graham has lived?