Guccifer 2.0 Claims Hacking Clinton Foundation, Leaking Donor Databases

Hacker Claims Hacking Clinton Foundation and Exposes Donor Databases and Pay to Play Folder — Experts conceive it's a phony chop up.

You may know that the notorious hacker Guccifer 2.0 was responsible for the DNC and DNCC hack attacks, which resulted in the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Shultz. But what you English hawthorn not be intimate is that the same hack is involved in the Clinton Foundation questionable hack attack.

In one of his recent posts on his website, Guccifer 2.0 announced that the time "many of you have been ready for" has arrived. In the same post, the hacker unconcealed that atomic number 2 has hacked the server of the Clinton Foundation and "downloaded hundreds of thousands of docs and donors' databases."

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"Hillary Clinton and her staff don't even bother about the entropy security. It was just a matter of time to gain access to the Clinton Foundation waiter," the post read.

The Romanian pure hacker Guccifer 2.0 has denied that he has whatever tie-u with the Russian government and has claimed that he has the entire database of donors related with the Clinton Basis. In fact, the hacker also posted the name of master donors along his website.

guccifer-2-0-claims-hacking-clinton-foundation-leaking-donor-databases — Screenshot from the alleged leaked data

As per the drudge, He has information about finished a one thousand Hillary donors and noted that:

"Information technology looks like big banks and corporations agreed to donate to the Democrats a certain percentage of the allocated TARP funds."

Furthermore, the hacker also informed Julian Assange in his post and expressed that:

"P.S. I'm pleased to congratulate Wikileaks happening their 10th anniversary!!!, Julian, you are actually cool! Stay safe and level-headed!"

The all but dangerous part of the spot was the root directory snapshot that showed a folder with the name "Pay to Represent." This folder has critically important details about the Pay to Encounter feature and could be quite damning for Clintons if the revelation turns resolute be true. Guccifer 2.0 claimed that he has gained access to hundreds of thousands of other files but he cannot post all of the databases because of them being as well large. Guccifer 2.0 noted that he was "looking for a better way to release them now."

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The presence of Pay to Play folder is rather alarming and requires a bit more probe because the way Guccifer 2.0 is revealing details about the Clinton Foundation, the governing body has started appearing like a channel for wealthy donors to acquire kickbacks, that is, Pay up to Turn. Connected the opposite hand, the presence of an entire folder containing a massive number of files with the title Pay to Play in the foundation's servers makes us point fingers at the legitimacy of the claims Guccifer 2.0 is qualification. After all, no one would be so stupid to create a folder of something that is required to stay on discreet.

Is information technology a sincere hack or bogus?

Experts have noted that some files that are shown in the uncovered data seem to be related to the DNCC and non the President Clinton Substructure. The foundation's president Donna Shalala rejected the exact of the hacker and explicit clearly that there has not been whatsoever hack attack and the folders do not belong to the organization. In fact, MotherBoard said hacker's latest alleged feat appears to be a complete lie.

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No evidence of a #Guccifer hack at @ClintonFdn, zero notification past law enforcement, and none of the files or folders shown are ours.

— Donna E. Shalala (@DonnaShalala) October 4, 2016

Tony Gauda, Chief executive officer of Palo Alto-based security companyThinAir:

"The public indignation caused by the newsworthiness of information leaks – whether fabricated or not – points to the dangerous ramifications of cyber attacks happening the American election process. This is the foremost election where just the threat of leaking data taken by cyber criminals, let alone the action itself, is being used as a political cat's-paw. Unless we rethink how we approach information security, it won't embody the go.

The security department community has already seen an escalation in targeted attacks coming from Department of State and not-state actors over the finale twelvemonth, and we have zero reason to expect a slowdown. If we want to outdoor stage a chance of winning this fight, we need more innovative technologies and deeper collaborationism between the national and private sectors to ensure nociceptive information testament always constitute protected, especially in the result of an attack. Bitchy actors bequeath continue to develop other and creative ways to exfiltrate information, so we ask the best minds in InfoSec practical in co-occurrence with one another if we are going to reach a solution."

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