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Posted on 03/06/2017 5:03:52 PM PST by Hojczyk
Russian hackers are gaining access to emails and other information belonging to progressive groups and then sifting it for embarrassing information. As many as a dozen groups have been blackmailed with demands for thousands of dollars in bitcoins. Some have even agreed to pay in the hopes the hacked information won’t be released.
In one case, a non-profit group and a prominent liberal donor discussed how to use grant money to cover some costs for anti-Trump protesters. The identities were not disclosed, and it’s unclear if the protesters were paid.
At least some groups have paid the ransoms even though there is little guarantee the documents won’t be made public anyway. Demands have ranged from about $30,000 to $150,000, payable in untraceable bitcoins, according to one of the people familiar with the probe…
The Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank with strong links to both the Clinton and Obama administrations, and Arabella Advisors, which guides liberal donors who want to invest in progressive causes, have been asked to pay ransoms, according to people familiar
After the story was published, a spokesperson for The Center for American Progress told Bloomberg, “CAP has no evidence we have been hacked, no knowledge of it and no reason to believe it to be true. CAP has never been subject to ransom.” But the other group mentioned in that paragraph above, Arabella Advisors, revealed it was the target of a financially motivated cyber crime.
With Democrats heavily invested in the idea that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton, the latest hacking is said to be setting off “alarms” that this is a further attempt to impact the U.S. political system. That could be but the demand for money seems to offer a clear alternative explanation.
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It’s supposed to be like you open an account with a bit coin bank, there are reviews, you can pick a relatively safe one, then you transfer some money into your account from your bank account, or other ways, and then you can pay people with it in bitcoin. I tried signing up for an account but it still gets very confusing and I wasn’t able to make it happen, the transfer.
Russians are more American than these leftist scum. BLM, islam and snowflakes need to be curtailed.
I think this is the year the Dems shenanigans hit the fan!
We accept credit cards.
I can’t be too troubled when I’m not even sure it’s true. It’s all lefty groups claiming they’re being hacked by Russians.
Let’s be honest, if the Russians were hacking both Republicans and Democrats, we wouldn’t be hearing complaints about the hacking. All we’d hear is republican dirty laundry.
What the Dems are really upset about is the Russians are only targeting them.
Maybe they just want their money back.
It’s another form of fiat currency NOT owned by the luciferians.
One has to wonder what could possibly be embarrassing for progressives when they support all sorts of perversions.
Their password has been changed to “1234.”
Seeing these scumbags being shaken down for extortion just makes me outraged.
Well, not really. But I did feel something. It might have been gas.
this is great news if true
In the nineties, the Clintons had all the FBI files on the republican politicians.
Is it no wonder the cowardly eGOP didn’t convict WJC or impeach him for the correct reason; colluding with the Chinese and accepting millions to get elected?
Bill Clinton, the first Chinese president of the USA
Russia hates Soros.
If he ever shows up there, he goes right to jail.
I wouldn’t mind Putin syphoning off some of his billions.
4. Most progressives are also doing the leg work to weaken America with respect to Russia, so I would call their bluff.
And just today CNN had on a peer-fessor claiming that Trump suffers from paranoid delusions.
All of this “Russia Russia Russia” conspiracy nonsense is HYSTERIA from tight-twisted panty wearing libs.
THEY are paranoid and delusional.
Bitcoin is an artificial, nationless, mostly non-physical currency that’s been designed to be as hard to trace as possible.
Was joke, comrades.
Will explain someday, when I get a “round tuit.”
:-)
PRECIOUS !!!
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