30 August 2026
Crypto Scammers Target Trump’s Campaign Website And Demands Monero
The campaign website of Donald Trump was hacked and defaced.
The incident lasted less than 30 minutes but it came as both campaigns. The law enforcement and intelligence agencies are on high alert for digital interference before next week’s election.
A spokesman for the Trump campaign, Tim Murtaugh said in the statement it was “working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack.” He further added, “There was no exposure to sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site. The website has been restored.”
The FBI didn’t share in comments immediately regarding the incident.
There is no update on whether the defacement was the work of foreign hackers or cybercriminals. As per the screed posted to Trump’s website — donaldjtrump.com, the hackers claimed to have compromised “multiple devices” that gave them access to the “most internal and secret conversations” of the president and his relatives, including classified information.
The hackers also blamed the Trump administration, without proof, of having a hand in the origins of the coronavirus and cooperating with “foreign actors manipulating the 2020 elections.”
It looks as though hackers were trying to make cryptocurrency. Hackers invited website visitors to donate cryptocurrency to one of two funds — one labeled “Yes, share the data,” the other labeled “No, Do not share the data.” They asked to pay in Monero, which is hard to trace cryptocurrency.
The message read, “After the deadline, we will compare the funds and execute the will of the world.”
The hacked looked like a common crypto scam asking people to donate money online.
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