For a while around 5pm EST, instead of the original content, dоnaldjtrump.соm displayed some rather incoherent, but distinctly uncomplimentary message. Now the site appears to be restored (still incoherent, but I suspect that’s how it’s always been). Borken English would cast suspicion on a non-English-speaking hacker, but for all that I know, it could be a false-flag op.
This level of competence is kind of to be expected from the parties involved. In the immortal words of the orange one himself,
I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly do-able. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing, but that's true throughout our whole governmental society.
Well, if Barron was the admin for that site, the break-in doesn’t speak well for his mad sk1llz.
Why this is not actually funny. The US is dealing with sophisticated adversaries (be they state actors, for-profit hackers, or hackers doing it just for the lulz), tmurp himself and many people in his orbit would not have passed standard checks for a security clearance, and whoever runs their Internet security apparently (based on the recent Twitter mishap) didn’t know two-factor authentication from a hole in the ground. This administration spreads disease and incompetence, and it will leave a ghastly mess that will take years to muck out.