Hackers threaten Trump to expose secret info

International Desk: Famous Hacker group Anonymous, has targeted U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, threatening to expose his "personal and financial ties with Russian mobsters."

In a succession of tweets, posted from one of the group's main Twitter accounts on Jan. 16, 2017, Anonymous claimed it has secret information on Trump's dubious ties with Russian mafia, child traffickers and money launderers.

The tweets from the hacker collective came after Trump took a dig at retiring CIA chief John Brennan with a tweet saying "Was this the leaker of fake news?"

The "fake news" according to Trump is the dossier written by British espionage Christopher Steel, which claims that Trump paid sex workers to urinate on his Moscow hotel bed as a sign of "dirty protest" against Barack Obama. Obama stayed in the same hotel suite during an earlier visit.

Although Anonymous made strong allegations against Trump in its tweets, the group did not release any evidence to support its claims. The group did not reveal how it plans to share this alleged information in its possession and expose Trump.

In 2016, Anonymous had waged a cyber war against Donald Trump by shutting down his personal websites and threatening to expose personal information Trump didn't want the public to gain knowledge of.

Anonymous also started the #OpTrump campaign and called in every individual with access to a computer to join the movement and sabotage his presidential campaign.

However, the protest did not gather much support as a few days later, another group calling itself the Anonymous Patriots, said the hashtag campaign was an attack on freedom of speech.

Trump is yet to respond to the allegations made by Anonymous and may be busy with making final changes to the plan he aims to replace Obamacare or ACA with.

TechTimes earlier reported that the republican President elect is all set to scrap the ACA and replace it with a plan which includes "lower numbers, much lower deductibles." It seems he also plans to go ahead with the plans of building a wall right across the Mexican border.

Source: Agencies

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