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AskCyber Home » News » News » Wisconsin Republicans Say Hackers Stole $2.3M of Campaign Funds

Wisconsin Republicans Say Hackers Stole $2.3M of Campaign Funds

2020-10-29 by Keith Harlock

Wisconsin Republicans Hacked

Hackers Phished Campaign Staff with Fraudulent Invoices

Officials from the Wisconsin Republican Party reported that $2.3 million USD in presidential election campaign funds were stolen by hackers. The cybercrime has been reported to the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)

Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt from Wisconsin says that hackers altered the information on invoices from four engaged vendors. The legitimate vendors were hired to create marketing materials such as direct mailers, campaign hats, and political flyers that are distributed to voters.

Campaign staff was sent phishing emails with fraudulent invoices attached. The invoices were edited to divert payments away from the legitimate vendors and send the money to the hackers instead.

The Party became aware of the criminal activity on October 22nd and reported it to the FBI the next day, says said Republican Chairman Hitt according to a report by the Associated Press (AP.) No sensitive data has been compromised in the cyberattack.

Just last month the US Department of Homeland Security warned about increasing cyberattacks targeting the  US Presidential election. Threat actors are increasingly attacking campaign officials and volunteers with phishing emails attempting to compromise campaigns.

Presidential candidate Joe Biden was targeted with two months of phishing attacks with no success.

2020 Election Cyberattacks

This is not the first rumblings of cyber attacks focusing on election interference. In February, US senators were briefed about potential Russian interference in the 2020 Presidential election

In early September, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) began to provide free Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting Service to small governmental organizations to help safeguard local election operations and data.

See Feds Warn of Phishing Attacks on US Elections

RNC Discovered Cyberattack from Media Reports

According to the AP report, the RNC learned about the stolen money from media reports rather from rather than from state party officials. “We have been in contact with the state party and are assisting them through this process,” said Republican National Committee (RNC) spokesman Michael Ahrens.

This is not the first financial debacle for the Wisconsin Republicans. In 2018 the state committee overspent its campaign budget at the state level and did not properly account for its spending.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Government

About Keith Harlock

Keith has 30 years of experience managing staff for the planning and design of highway, bridge and transportation-related projects and specialty structures. Keith oversees the development of and authors numerous reports on a variety of topics related to transportation engineering and has worked with several key clients on projects related to infrastructure security. Keith is a licensed professional engineer in the State of New York, currently a State Board member of the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York and is a licensed commercial pilot with an instrument rating. He resides in Western New York.


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