Hackers Steal Large Sum From Anti-Trump Super PAC The Lincoln Project

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Published Apr. 23, 2024 9:38PM EDT


Unidentified hackers targeted centrist political action committee The Lincoln Project, eventually stealing $35,000 from the organization known for its criticisms of Donald Trump.

First reported by Raw Story, The Lincoln Project notes the loss in a filing to federal regulators that includes two “fraudulent” transactions.

Known for its anti-Trump ads, the super PAC blamed the incident on “hackers,” with spokesman Greg Minchak telling Raw Story: “A vendor’s email was hacked, with the hackers producing authentic-looking invoices that were sent from our vendor’s legitimate email account.

The hack affected multiple clients of the vendor, including Lincoln Project.” Minchak added that the “transactions did not impact our operations in any way in the fight for a democratic future for our nation.” Minchak did not name the vender, but said the organization was “implementing new procedures to confirm invoices and payments.

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[Tetrachloride]

1. large sum is a bit subjective

for some , it’s a day or week’s income

the story has a whiff of clickbait

[PSPS]

6. Daily Beast's business model is copying others' work and adding a clickbait title

I'm surprised (not really) that it's even allowed in LBN.
They're telling us about a "vender" being hacked. Fake invoices are an old ploy that are easy to spot.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Even better,

Raw Story's business model is copying others' work and adding a clickbait title, so that makes this meta-clickbait.

And good morning.

[LiberalArkie]

11. For some $35,000 is 2 years income.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Ha! That should pay his counsel

for one day in court.

[mucifer]

3. They pull in about 10 million a year. It's not like the pediatric hospital hack here in Chicago that

crippled the hospital for months.

This is nothing. But, it will be a reminder to everyone on the left to up their cybersecurity.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. And they didn't hack TLP

They hacked one of TLPs vendors.

[IronLionZion]

4. Plenty of criminal activity from the Law and Order Republicans

[PSPS]

7. It's probably not politically motivated

Fake invoices are sent out by the millions every day to almost everyone.

[IronLionZion]

8. That happens to large companies

but for a PAC it could be politically motivated.

[Backseat Driver]

14. Maybe the leader at that tabloid was clawing back the doorman's

finder's fee?

[FakeNoose]

9. Fun fact: you know who's really, really good at hacking websites?

Russian programmers.

Just sayin'

[Martin68]

12. China? Russia?

[dalton99a]

15. Most likely Trump's 400-lb hackers who write in Cyrillic