The NY Post reported a few days ago. Today the story is: "Law firm hackers double ransom demand, threaten Donald Trump"
On Thursday, the hackers upped the ante by posting a chilling new message saying, “The ransom is now [doubled to] $42,000,000 … The next person we’ll be publishing is Donald Trump. There’s an election going on, and we found a ton of dirty laundry on time.”Trump was never a client of this law firm... and who cares about a ton of dirty Trump laundry? He's pre-dirtied in the laundry department. No one cares.
They added, “Mr Trump, if you want to stay president, poke a sharp stick at the guys, otherwise you may forget this ambition forever. And to you voters, we can let you know that after such a publication, you certainly don’t want to see him as president … The deadline is one week....”
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Lizzie Grubman's dad is having a bad day, but it's not as bad as Lizzie's worst day ever.
Isn't The Onion laying it on a little thick with an agent named "Grubman"?
That's a hilariously amateurish ransom note and ransom escalation. It's not right to laugh at this, as it's still a violation if the target is a celebrity, but the Grubman part makes it hard. Real hard.
Sucks to be showbiz people. At least they are not being tarred and feathered or being bet on in dead pools.
@daskol - I’d forgotten that.
I expect this sort of hacking and data threat goes on a lot. Most firms do not protect their data very well.
Luckily most data is boring. And if a disgruntled tax clerk asks for $100kmfrom her CPA firm on leaving, well, that’s easy to pay and not cops needed.
-XC
Who is "Lizzie Grubman" and why is her surname name funny? Asking for a friend.
I suspect that by threatening the President, they've opened up a whole new level of shit to come down on them.
I believe it was Huey Long who said that they only way he could lose an election was if he was caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy. What are they going to reveal? The Donald slept with porn actresses? A playboy bunny? Has been married three times!
It’s hilarious for Grubman to maintain that his is the top entertainment law firm in the world. I’m pretty sure that a number of others such as Ziffren Brittenham or Sloan Offer or Hansen would easily shove him off that perch.
- Krumhorn
“The hackers got into the system while everyone was focused on the coronavirus."
Who is so focused on the coronavirus that they can't attend to their actual jobs? I'm picturing the IT department of this firm staring at the news on their phones while their computer screens erupt unnoticed. That's stupid.
And you're right, they have nothing on Trump. They calculated that this would get them more press, turning up the heat on the appropriately named "Grubman."
Clients are all Liberals.
Sloane. Damned auto text!!
- Krumhorn
He could boink Streisand on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes.
“The hackers got into the system while everyone was focused on the coronavirus."
Tim Maguire, that is indeed a funny line. Yeah. Someone was bored at home and clicked a link they shouldn't have.
But now I know why NPR was covering ransom ware attacks yesterday.
It's a funny thing, isn't it, the car radio. It seems so odd to still have something where you can miss the beginning of a story and not be able to rewind or re-listen. I usually listen to podcasts on apple car play when I drive, but yesterday I went out without a phone.
If it was my law firm, I might make up the second threat to motivate the government to help.
But I would also say there was a ton of dirt on Hillary. The next day you'd read in the papers that the hackers had committed suicide.
Allen Grubman says there is a "Ransom demand"? Does he represent the Asian Red Dawn too?
Where could he have gotten this idea? Grubman has parlayed his brother, Hans' celebrity ever since he fell off the Nakatomi Building to his death back in 1987, into this celebrity niche lawyering. His business, like most, has probably dried up and this is a ploy for attention.
The whole thing stinks.
"He's pre-dirtied in the laundry department."
Actually, pre-cleansed in the trash and waste department. No one has been attacked more by MSMers and deep-staters eager to bury him in dirt, and yet come out unscathed--while having had his administration hamstrung, of course.
Do you think his family started out in the catering business?
They added, “Mr Trump, if you want to stay president, poke a sharp stick at the guys, otherwise you may forget this ambition forever. And to you voters, we can let you know that after such a publication, you certainly don’t want to see him as president … The deadline is one week....”
LOL!
Sorry but unless you video of Trump in bed with 3 dead hookers or three live under-age boys AND Wine-box Nancy, I can't think of anything that would be on a media lawyer's web site that would bother Trump supporters enough to cause them to stay home. They absolutely would not vote for whatever "golden child" replaces Biden. So let it rip!
I do not think it all adds up. Doubling the demand to $42M to prevent release of damaging info for Trump? I am guessing most of the stars are liberal and would welcome release of such information, if it exists. Instead of extortion, which is a crime, the hackers should be offering a deal, "$42M for damaging info on Trump".
Publish and be damned.
The blackmailer has to offer some guarantee that on receipt of payment he will go away forever.
“Despite our substantial investment in state-of-the-art technology security
I'm kinda doubting that.
Speaking from 40 years experience in IT, I can tell you that the professions are generally awful about computer security. They all think they're too important to be bothered with shit like that.
I'd really like to read an honest analysis what happened here & what route the hackers used to penetrate their defenses.
I'm curious what they could release about Elton that wasn't in the movie? Oh no, he has drug fueled orgies where he gives oral sex to men. Yeah, but did you know that after the hangover, he hits Rodeo Drive for a $10,000 shopping spree? Really, just $10,000?
Any chance that this is an elaborate deceit played by someone in the Grubman organization to give cover to leaking whatever damaging information they know about Trump?....Why not start with a few tasty tidbits about some cherished celebrity before moving up?
He could boink Streisand on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes.
@Ralph, anyone so lacking in good taste to boink Streisand, public or private doesn’t matter, I don’t know whether someone like that belongs in the Oval Office.
I wouldn't mind seeing some dirt on De Niro...
Meanwhile, every other agent in town is getting some variation of this incident pitched to them as a screenplay.
I'd go with the heist comedy version, myself. Picture one bandit glancing at note cards as he tries to record the ransom video --
Bandit 1: "Give us $20 million by Friday, or we'll blow the lid off of ... Barry Manilow? You stole the files of Barry Manilow?"
Bandit 2: "My mother loves him! She says she danced to 'Mandy' at her wedding. This'll totally tick her off!"
So far we have only seen the top of the Trump dirty laundry pile, I wonder what lies on the bottom?
Even the supposedly legit CrowdStrikes of the world can be bought off. Just ask the DNC.
So far we have only seen the top of the Trump dirty laundry pile
What makes you think that?
I hope that while the firm was busy focusing on the coronavirus it didn't also neglect to make sure its professional liability / cyber policies were up-to-date and in effect.
Imagine: all the hush money payments, all the Doctors fees, all the NDAs published..Better pay and hope for the best.
“Despite our substantial investment in state-of-the-art technology security"
I'm kinda doubting that.
#metoo; if it were true, then this wouldn't be possible (though perhaps it's not true, considering the source):
"They also deleted or encrypted the firm’s backups."
because the backups would be in a different physical location and not connected to a network.
The entire US news media.
The entire international news media.
The Democratic Party oppo research machinery.
The Republican Party oppo research machinery.
The FBI
The CIA
Every other branch of US intelligence.
Every foreign intelligence agency
The Mueller Investigation
All the private investigations and private revelations that could be bought by Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, George Soros, et al.
All those, plus every bong smoking, hacky-sack kicker with an internet connection, have not only peeled Trump's onion, they've chopped it to a fine pulp for at least the last 4 years.
How much undiscovered dirt could there possibly be?
And to you voters, we can let you know that after such a publication, you certainly don’t want to see him as president...
Now that does it!
The hackers are muscling-in on turf that belongs to CNN and MSNBC.
Blogger roesch/voltaire said...
So far we have only seen the top of the Trump dirty laundry pile, I wonder what lies on the bottom?
It might be interesting to see R/V's dirty laundry. Nah, just envy and bitterness.
But I would also say there was a ton of dirt on Hillary. The next day you'd read in the papers that the hackers had committed suicide.
Thread winner.
Grubman has demo tapes of Trump covering Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" and America's " Horse with No Name". Music dysphoria for everyone.
Allan Grubman is the father of Lizzy Grubman, who was famous/notorious for 2 minutes 20 years ago.
Also threatened with blackmail, publicist Nathan Thurm. Google him.
The only damaging thing that could possibly be revealed about anybody on that client list is that they uttered the "N" word some time in the past.
Ralph L said... He could boink Streisand on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes.
No. Boinking Babs would cause me to rethink my support.
roesch/voltaire: "So far we have only seen the top of the Trump dirty laundry pile, I wonder what lies on the bottom?"
Nobody knows what the hackers know! (Latest variation of "Nobody Knows What Mueller Knows!")
Lefties require a new variation weekly to keep up their spirits.
They'd better leave Sofia Vergara alone. She's an angel.
No one cares, because 12, 16 and more trimesters of witch hunts and warlock trials from conception ("announcement"), through birth ("inauguration"), and throughout his formative presidential years, they never left - pun intended - him.
"Trump was never a client of this law firm... and who cares about a ton of dirty Trump laundry? He's pre-dirtied in the laundry department. No one cares."
Murdock-owned NY Post says DJT was never a client of the Grubman law firm but no independent news source outside of this Trump-friendly source has confirmed it. "[Unnamed] Sources told Page Six that Trump had never been a client of the firm."
As for who cares? You know I always cheer for the Good Guys and Trump is not a member of that team.
You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
Fuck De Niro!
- Krumhorn
bonkti said,
"Grubman has demo tapes of Trump covering Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey'"
Gaaaahh! I thought I'd purged my brain of every memory of that awful song! Damn you bonkti! God damn you to heck! Aaaarrrghh! [runs blindly down street, tumbles off bridge]
"They all think they're too important to be bothered with shit like that."
My impression is that lawyers think that the technology actually does the work.
A friend of mine, who is a big lib, a Trump hater and loves Obama, sent me a link to this story. He wrote one word along with the link, "Obama!"
Maybe Grubman is trying to blackmail his clients, and getting them to pay up.
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