Report: FBI Looking Into Attempted Cyberattack On Trump Organization

A stock picture of Trump Tower in New York USA. Picture date: Friday March 17, 2017. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire URN:30593317
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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.

“We absolutely weren’t hacked,” Trump told ABC. “That’s crazy. We weren’t hacked, I can tell you that.”

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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  1. Avatar for vonq vonq says:

    And while they’re there…

  2. Hmm… I seem to recall during the campaign someone from the PeePee team condemning the Clinton camp for not allowing the FBI access to their networks after news of hacking was announced.

    So I’m so very sure that PeePeeCo will invite the FBI into their networks with both open arms and warm gratitude. Amirite?

  3. The same trumPP moran who said this? Thought so.

    ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’

    Edited:

    Reuters reported that a group of 63 Russia billionaires have invested nearly $100 million in several Trump properties in Florida. Donald Trump Jr. himself famously said in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.

  4. “We absolutely weren’t hacked,” Trump told ABC. “That’s crazy. We weren’t hacked, I can tell you that.”

    He continued, “We fully authorized all that server activity with Alfa Bank – and with the DeVos server, too.”

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