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We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ The campaign just confirmed it was hacked. (www.politico.com)

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The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation.

On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official.

The person said they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions.”

Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Probably not very stupid at all. Spear phishing is by definition targeted to specific people or groups, and so can be more successful in the end. More to the point, though, is that nobody has their guard up 24/7, and people make mistakes. That's not stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stupidity definitely helps them get through More often though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Hence why I'd love to know what the email was that was successful!