The Hackers are reported to steal $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party just weeks earlier the election using a scheme involved manipulated invoices, the Related Press reports. The group noted the theft on October 22nd; Wisconsin Republican Party President Andrew Hitt says that the FBI is now investigating the case.
According to Hitt, hackers used fake invoices from many vendors the campaign was active with for things like election mailings and Trump merchandise. Rather than featuring the vendor’s payment data, the documents transfer the money to the hackers.
This kind of hack is in fact a fairly ordinary scam: Facebook and Google have been hit by an alike phishing scheme in 2017 to the tune of $100 million. Scammers frequently use pretend invoices to target businesses, organizations, and different groups, hoping to sneak in fake receipts side by side with the legitimate ones. Given how frenetic management an election campaign in the final weeks before the election can be, it’s easy to imagine how the scammed invoices might make slipped by.
The AP report does not note how long the hackers have been siphoning money off of the report, but the sum is a sizable one, granted that Wisconsin Republican spokesman Alec Zimmerman points out that the party’s federal account currently include $1.1 million.
Wisconsin is considered a fundamental state for both the Trump and Biden campaigns in the future election.
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