Hackers stole a pile of cash from an anti-Trump super PAC: report
Hackers posed as a vendor to steal $35,000 from the Lincoln Project, a prominent anti-Trump super PAC, which has struggled in recent years.
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- The Lincoln Project, a prominent super PAC, lost $35,000 to hackers via fraudulent transactions.
- The group said that one of its vendors was hacked and sent it authentic-looking invoices.
- The Lincoln Project, which opposes Trump, said the loss wouldn't affect its operations.
A prominent super PAC vocally opposed to former President Donald Trump has been swindled out of $35,000 by hackers, according to Raw Story.
In its filings to the FEC, the Lincoln Project reported two February transactions, of $15,000 and $20,000, as "under dispute" and marked as "fraudulent."
A spokesperson, Greg Minchak, told Raw Story: "A vendor's email was hacked, with the hackers producing authentic-looking invoices that were sent from our vendor's legitimate email account."
The Lincoln Project did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment, sent outside of US working hours.
The hack affected several of the unnamed vendor's clients, Minchak told the outlet.
The Lincoln Project took immediate action to mitigate the issue, he added, including improving how it confirms payments and notifying its bank's fraud department.
The hack "did not impact our operations in any way in the fight for a democratic future for our nation," Minchak said.
The Lincoln Project burst into public view in 2019 as a hub for disillusioned conservatives to signal their dislike of MAGA Republicanism.
The group raised more than $87 million in that election cycle, according to Open Secrets — partly due to its scrappy and sometimes controversial approach to publicity.
Its fundraising is far more muted this time around, with the group having raised just under $11 million in the 2024 election cycle so far.
In 2021, Lincoln Project cofounder John Weaver admitted sending "inappropriate," sexually charged messages to a number of men, as Axios first reported.
In 2022, after anti-Trump GOP Rep. Liz Cheney lost her seat, the group declared that the Republican Party had become an "authoritarian nationalist cult."