In the United States, hackers require Mitt Romney a million dollars for stolen files

In the United States, feds will take care of the presidential candidate for president’s post from the Republican Party Mitt Romny, for which hackers who have committed a crime require a million dollars, CNET reports with reference to the press secretary of the secret service of George Ogilvi. The department has already been investigated.

The message that Romny files were stolen from the PriceWaterhouse Coopers office in Franklin, Tennessee, hackers laid out on September 2 on the Pastebin website, a popular site for publishing an Internet commercial. According to them, on August 25, they managed to get to the second floor of the building at night and copy all the available tax returns with reports on the annual income of Romni, and if the presidential candidate does not comply with their conditions, all stolen files will be published in the open access. At the same time, hackers emphasized that copies were already sent to the headquarters of the apartments of the Republican and Democratic parties.

The day before, the hackers published a new message in which they specified that the encrypted copies would be sent to the main news editions, and demanded that Romny pay them one million dollars in virtual currency - bitcoans, transferring the necessary amount to a certain account. However, everyone also has a chance to get stolen information earlier than a Republican candidate, scammers emphasized, it is only necessary to transfer the same amount to another account.

Meanwhile, Pricewaterhousecoopers published a statement that the company's specialists did not find evidence of violations in the operation of the system.

“We know about the statements that were made regarding unauthorized access to our system,” the report said. “We are working in close contact with the United States secret service, and at the moment there is no evidence that our systems have been compromised or that there was unauthorized data access to data.”

In turn, the election headquarters of Mitta Romney in Fairfax, Virginia, generally chose not to give any comments on this matter.

Meanwhile, the offices of the Democratic and Republican Parties confirmed the receipt of parcels with flash drives, however, the contents of their contents were never reported.

“We had a meeting of the executive committee at the headquarters on Thursday night,” said Peter Berr, Chairman of the Democratic Party of the District, “when we arrived at the meeting, we found this parcel on the floor, it fell through the letters slot.” “I opened it and found inside a piece of paper, folded four -fold, and a black Cruzer flash drive for 4 gigabytes,” Berr added, clarifying that he immediately handed over all the contents of the parcel to the secretary service, without making any copies and not trying to find out what was on the medium.

Confirm the receipt of the parcel and the executive director of the Republican Party in the district, Williamson Jin Barvik. She was found at the door of the headquarters of the party on Friday morning. However, Barvik announced this to the authorities only on September 6, because, according to her, the envelope looked very doubtful: he was even signed by a marker.

What is the candidate of a millionaire

Accusations of intentional concealment of income information against Mitt Romni from the Democrats have been sounding for a long time. According to critics, the Republican candidate published his tax return only over the past two years, which indicates that the ex-governor of Massachusetts has something to hide, writes ITAR-TASS. And not so long ago, the leader of the democratic majority in the Senate Harry Reed said that Romny had not paid taxes over the past ten years.

These accusations, in turn, provoked Romny's protective speech. In mid -August, he said that he regularly paid taxes at a rate of at least 13% over the past ten years.

“I checked financial documents and became convinced that over the past ten years I paid taxes at a rate of at least 13%,” Romni told reporters during a pre -election trip along the state of South Carolina.

However, according to him, the question of how many taxes he paid is far from as important as the global problems facing America - "23 million people have no work, Iran is preparing to become a nuclear power, every sixth American lives behind the poverty line."

Romny published his tax return in January . At first, he refused to do this, but lost under the pressure of rivals-republicans during the primary elections. According to the documents, his income in the last two years has amounted to more than $ 20 million a year, and the total fortune reaches $ 250 million, which makes it one of the richest candidates for the president in the history of the United States.

Most of Romni’s income, which was in the past head of the Bain Capital large investment company, make up profit from investments, dividends, as well as interest on the placement of funds. Over the past two years, Romny sacrificed about $ 7 million with charitable organizations, most of which were at the disposal of the Mormon Church of the United States, which he is an adherent.