r/technology • u/JustMyOpinionz • Aug 26 '26
Security US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/china-hacker-federal-reserve-doj-nasa.html1.9k
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u/iam_Mr_McGibblets Aug 26 '26
The funny thing is they hacked their way in when they simply could've asked Donald and he would give it to them
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u/using2stars Aug 26 '26
Yeah. Definitely wasted effort.
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u/dirty_hooker Aug 27 '26
Nah. They want to send the message that they can. Every competent country out there just stifled a gasp.
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u/Yharnam_Blunderbuss Aug 26 '26
But lets go back a little further in the timeline... which population was dumb enough to enable this twice with their vote or non vote?
What? Where are all the proud USA chants?
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u/blaghed Aug 27 '26
Make Swamp Great Again!
Drain the America!Like these? I don't remember them very well.
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u/haveilostmymindor Aug 26 '26
Well it looked like an orange turd nugget that got dumped into the cyber command somewhere completely tourched the place.
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u/SmaugTheMagnificent- Aug 26 '26
It's rumoured they worked under the acronym DOGE in their swath of destruction and theft.
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u/Joe18067 Aug 26 '26
Let's fire everyone with a brain and hire a bunch of yes men, what could possibly go wrong.
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u/nav17 Aug 26 '26
When your goal is the destruction of democracy and engorging the bellies of oligarchs that's exactly what you do though.
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u/Haldron-44 Aug 26 '26
What I've been screaming since we found out about p2025. These fuckers literally published their plan to destroy and "rebuild" the country. They're not confessing, they are bragging.
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u/Comfortable_Car6562 Aug 27 '26
The people who voted for that knew this, they live in such a fundamentally different reality that this was a good idea.
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u/doctormink Aug 26 '26
Or the little doge d**ks sold their login credentials to the highest bidder.
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u/llcdrewtaylor Aug 26 '26
I think they were intending to and China decided to help themselves. The US govt is just made they couldn't make any money off of it.
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u/casperdj21 Aug 26 '26
Was it TheRealDonaldJTrump@Dodge.com?!
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u/AlwaysRushesIn Aug 26 '26
Password: Trump2028
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u/Cjkrythos Aug 26 '26
Are you kidding, he probably still hasn't changed it from his real obsession. "CrookedHilary" and yes, Hillary was misspelled because you know that twit probably doesn't know how to spell her name
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u/StreetTrial69 Aug 26 '26
I wonder what it would be worth for a foe like China or Russia getting direct access to all spicy secrets. I imagine top level access like the Doge boys had should be worth billions.
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u/The_Lost_Jedi Aug 26 '26
I long for a return to valuing actual expertise and experience in government, or really anything, again.
Doctors, scientists, the sort of people who are experts in their field are the ones we should put in charge of stuff and pay attention to, not grifters and social media "influencers." Sure, sometimes experts get stuff wrong, but that's why we pay attention to groups of them, and other checks.
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u/son_et_lumiere Aug 26 '26
The shits for weeks after having a salad for lunch, and a frozen blueberry smoothie for dessert.
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u/blueiron0 Aug 26 '26
Don't forget the salmonella from eating a jalapeno, enjoying an egg, or putting a little granola on your yogurt.
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u/Constant_Bit4676 Aug 26 '26
A bunch of teenagers that have never have experienced a production security incident, or incident at all for that matter, were let lose onto some of the most secure government systems with full privileges.
These morons 100% left all sorts of holes and gaps in their wake. The only thing that surprises me is that we haven’t seen more headlines like this, but it was always a matter of time.
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u/Ulric19 Aug 26 '26
Minor correction - They were much closer to "yes boys". Not arguing that the individuals involved are in any way less culpable for their involvement (because of their age), just reiterating how irresponsible that whole debacle was.
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u/chamrockblarneystone Aug 26 '26
When I look back at that I’m like, “We really let them do that?” We’ve all gone a little nuts.
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u/graesen Aug 26 '26
Why was someone from Russia logging in immediately after DOGE created a new account?
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u/windowpuncher Aug 26 '26
I love PBS so much. Basically THE last large media "company" that's doing actual journalistic reporting.
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u/maltNeutrino Aug 26 '26
Watching archive clips of news from half a century ago really illustrates how low that medium of news has fallen, and how we all collectively have fallen.
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u/maltNeutrino Aug 26 '26
Glad someone else remembers this. Using federal resources to intimidate a person doing the right thing is so nightmarish, yet here we are.
Also, this nation will not heal without the Epstein class being sent to a tribunal.
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u/Exostrike Aug 26 '26
No those were the guys they got the accounts off of
... For free
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u/supervegeta101 Aug 26 '26
Whatever bullshit backdoor Musk had those undergrads install on all the government servers immediately got exploited.
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u/0202_tihssitidder Aug 26 '26
Has anyone come to the conclusion that the entire Republican party is morons?
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u/SmaugTheMagnificent- Aug 26 '26
Myself, and every single other Canadian, years ago.
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u/thebruce Aug 26 '26
The Conservative people I know oscillate between "he says it like it is" and "he's a fucking idiot" depending on what he's talking about. If it's immigrants and trans people, they love Trump. If it's Canada, they hate him.
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u/I_Ski_Freely Aug 26 '26
just cover up the hack by making it look like it was an incompetent government contractor... They really do think of everything
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u/NoBuenoAtAll Aug 26 '26
I was gonna say, what difference does it make now? DOGE was already in just about anywhere they wanted in for a hot minute, you can bet all that information has been sold more than once.
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u/Vin4251 Aug 26 '26
DOGE is basically the epitome of American anti “BiG gUbMt” hysteria. There’s no reason to go “what are we … a bunch of Asians” about it
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u/trebuchetdoomsday Aug 26 '26
gosh it's almost like cutting the government's CISA workforce by 1/3 was a bad idea. who could have guessed something like this would happen?
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u/Hmm_would_bang Aug 26 '26
Yeah but have you considered a former CISA employee didn’t believe the 2020 election was stolen? Really a catch 22 for the president.
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u/AlfuegoDeMellopie Aug 26 '26
The Trump Administration and DOGE allowed Chinese hackers to break into Justice Department, NASA...
Fixed it for you.
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u/the_ok_doctor Aug 26 '26
Yeap with the gutting of cyber security and all that security dmg from DODGE they basically rolled the red carpet for national hackers
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u/Notsurehowtoreact Aug 26 '26
How about:
The Trump Administration found evidence of Chinese hacking in a department and are now using it as cover/excuse for some of the fucked up leaks and other issues caused by DOGE as well.
That's where my money is.
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u/PurpleCoat6656 Aug 26 '26
Release the files Xi !
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u/sicklyslick Aug 26 '26
if they got the files, they'll use it as leverage.
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u/Orange_Tang Aug 26 '26
Why even bother? Trump is destroying the US all on with own. They'll just sit on it if they have it.
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u/ipoopwiththeseatup Aug 26 '26
These hackers could do the craziest thing right now, haha. That would be so insane and wacky! Do you think China has wacky Wednesdays? Or is it Thursday there already?
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u/Zardotab Aug 26 '26
More likely Xi would use the threat of Epstein releases to get lower tariffs out of Donnie, and Donnie would quietly comply. This is similar to the pee-pee-tape-theory with Putin.
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u/OttawaTGirl Aug 26 '26
If they had the full unredacted files. Send them to Canada, Japan, Europe, UK, Iran, India, and it would be a total slaughter. One country like Iran would release and share them and then every other country would have to investigate their own nationals or look like they are covering. It would be a political coup de gras. Imagine what the UK would have to do if Andrew was dragged into the light? It would be a global reckoning.
That would be devestating to every person in the US who was privy to the whole god forsaken coverup.
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u/jdm1891 Aug 26 '26
I think those countries wouldn't release them, because 99.9% chance some of their own very powerful people are on them.
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u/FanDry5374 Aug 26 '26
Good thing all the cyber security was fired by Musk, otherwise this could have been bad.
/S
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u/dnen Aug 26 '26
This isnt relevant really and I don’t want to hijack the topic but I want everyone to know the source of ALL this information is the current Department of Justice. Every single one of these loser cronies and D students fresh out of barely accredited law schools are going to be persona non grata in the legal field in 5 years because the DOJ has been THOROUGHLY corrupted by Trump during this second term. The Attorney General of the United States is the most corrupt and unprincipled American the Senate has confirmed to the Cabinet since the 1800’s Gilded Age.
It isnt 2010 anymore where we can just take for granted any federal agency or department. The DOJ is demonstrably and faithfully carrying out destructive and unconstitutional acts on a daily basis. I dont trust a word they say even if this chinese intrusion is seemingly something every american should be aware of. This president doesnt hold himself accountable for literally anything ever, let alone his cronies. Chances are high this breach is actually much worse or much less serious than it is being presented because thats what the executive branch does now
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u/Imd1rtybutn0twr0ng Aug 26 '26
I totally understand this and agree. Misinformation and deconstruction of our legal system has been in play...
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u/DisillusionedPatriot Aug 27 '26
My first thought, after reading the headline, was "it probably wasn't China", followed by "didn't the director of the cia just go to Moscow?"
The entire US government is compromised, and can no longer be trusted by either its former allies, or its citizens.
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u/brycebgood Aug 26 '26
See, the problem is, I don’t trust our current government. Might have happened, might not. The people running things are a terrifying combination of stupid, inexperienced, and evil. They might have been duped by Russia to blame China. It’s possible nothing happened and they’re just trying to crank up anti-chinese sentiment. They might have read a report wrong. Who the fuck knows.
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u/DestinedEnd Aug 26 '26
Inb4 Fox “News” uses this report to manufacture consent for a war with China (economic or otherwise)
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u/Piglet6482 Aug 26 '26
Are they trying to make me mad at China? Cause all this does is make me mad at our own cybersecurity.
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u/Pschobbert Aug 26 '26
They’re setting up a pretext to block and/or rig the mid-terms, and/or distract attention from the Epstein files, and/or to add to the overload of crisis information. Putin style. Behave erratically, make false claims, retract what you insisted was truth, flood the information space with contradictory BS.
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u/Recent_Mirror Aug 26 '26
Welp, one of Trump’s buddies must have started a cybersecurity company.
Now we need to spend billions to prevent another “hack”. Continently, this contract will be awarded to Trumps buddy.
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u/RevolutionaryFig9437 Aug 26 '26
A pre-cursor to Invoke National Security then use eminent domain to take-over land & finally build more data centers.
This is claimed by the government, right after the EPA disclosure thing.
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u/Serpentongue Aug 26 '26
No, it’s a pre cursor to invoke National Security to stop the midterms so they don’t lose power
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u/pegar Aug 26 '26
Claim to solve the problem you created and then half ass it and fail at it. Then blame everyone else
The Republican Way.
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u/Economy_Car_9568 Aug 26 '26
Know who else broke into the white house, stole classified information, and got away with it? THE FUCKING JANURY 6 INSURRECTIONISTS. And we somehow don't even talk about it.
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u/Akuuntus Aug 26 '26
I agree with the sentiment, but I'm pretty sure they stormed the Capitol Building and not the White House.
A better comparison would be DOGE.
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u/ManBunH8er Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
No shit Sherlock, it was inevitable when our systems are ban-aided with legacy software and DOGE likely fired most of the good tech that was maintaining it.
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u/femme_mystique Aug 26 '26
Yup. Most of the security folks left. In some cases, 0-1 person managing all the security equipment. This is fully on Musk and Vought.
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u/dubblies Aug 26 '26
Thank god we have a cyber threats and security department that trump and elon didnt dismantle
... someone please tell me they didnt dismantle them
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u/digiorno Aug 26 '26
Will they wipe the student loan debt? What about medical debt?
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u/PaddleMonkey Aug 26 '26
Suddenly everyone will praise China for these heroic acts.
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u/SuperSecretAgentMan Aug 26 '26
This is how China wins WW3 without firing a single bullet. Win the people's hearts by giving them back any chance at financial freedom and they'll beg you to take over the country.
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u/ShermansWorld Aug 26 '26
First thing DOGE probably did was disband or severely reduce any IT for the Justice Department, NASA, Fed. Reserve, Senate, etc.. "Nothing is happening here... what do we need you for?!!!" kind of attitude.
Also probably, GOP or related did this to get any and all info or specific info and is now pointing the fingers at China.
And Also probably, GOP let this happen, and will now hire their own 'experts' and 'fix' all this mess for.... one billion dollars and install McAfee. Kinda like the Reflecting Pool at the memorial...
Great timeline...
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u/B00gieNightz Aug 26 '26
I don’t believe anything that comes out of the Us Government or there propaganda “sorry I meant press”
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u/Teranyll Aug 26 '26
Just an excuse to say they also broke into election stuff so they can take over as much as that as they want
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u/A_reddit_refugee Aug 26 '26
If I were a betting man, Doge probably left ports open to make this happen
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u/TanguyDetestable Aug 26 '26
Trump speedrunning American collapse, rich people too busy lying to themselves to care.
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u/Zardotab Aug 26 '26
Xi, if you're listening, please release the "lost" unredacted Trump Epstein victim interviews!
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u/Constant_Pen9615 Aug 26 '26
What a bunch of assholes! Could have at least wiped out some consumer debt while in there.
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u/Dangermouse454 Aug 26 '26
Release the Epstein files
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u/sokos Aug 26 '26
Wouldn't that be awesome if Iran or China actually released it. It's pretty telling that not a single person in the US is being investigated over these files, and how nothing has been heard about it since the Iran war. It's as if, the intent for that war was a distraction.
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u/MrRemoto Aug 26 '26
This era is going to be studied for generations. The fall is a historic cliff. He is accomplishing in a few short years what took the Caesars, the Khans, and the Tsars 10 generations.
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u/motionSymmetry Aug 26 '26
yeah, but it's ok, they all reported to musk, right?
i wonder how much it costs to buy a copy of the data those doge idiots took? does grok have a payment tunnel for that, or what ...
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u/jreed66 Aug 26 '26
Maybe Mitch's wife gave them his passwords when he became mentally incapacitated in a rehabilitation center and she chose to fly to China.
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u/ahearthatslazy Aug 26 '26
China if you can hear me through the internet wires under the ocean please delete student loan debt. Thank you.
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u/IngwiePhoenix Aug 26 '26
Let me guess...
with their EEEEEEEEEVILLLLLLLLL open source LLMs? OOOOO TERRIFYINGGGGGGGGG
Considering DOGE went amok on the infra of so many offices, I would not be shocked if they left...a few doors open. xD
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u/kvothe5688 Aug 26 '26
this will be definitely used to ban or limit open-source LLMs on the behalf of anthropic and openAI lobbying.
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u/williamgman Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
And when they got in... They realized those departments had already been ransacked.
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u/dev-saint Aug 26 '26
Didn’t Doge and Drump shut down an entire Federal cyber security organization in the first month. I recall it was how Doge brought all these idiot kids who had never even had a job before and gave them access and let them loose on all of the sensitive and secure federal systems and databases.
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u/SystemAny4819 Aug 26 '26
Not surprising when the cybersecurity infrastructure of the United States looks like fucking Swiss cheese
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u/Ok_Cucumber_7954 Aug 26 '26
Is it really breaking in if the back doors were left wide open by DOGE and Trump’s mass layoffs and decimation of the US cybersecurity system?
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u/AudienceDue6445 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Damn so now even the Chinese has the full trump/epstein files before we do
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u/powercow Aug 26 '26
problem is this admin is so incompetent, that its hard to know if this is true, and if true, was it china.
these people said vandals ruined his pool job when it was just a rushed job by a company with no experience doing the job and the president driving cars as heavy as tanks on it.
we still dont know if the "drug boats" blown up by this admin were drug boats
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u/TyrannasaurusRecht Aug 27 '26
Honestly, bet they didn't but it will be a handy excuse for the sold data of US citizens to interested third parties by doge and fat orange.
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u/WaySavvyD Aug 26 '26
Perhaps they should change the passwords from "password!"
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u/VaporousMote Aug 26 '26
You joke but this is LITERALLY one of the top reasons companies get breached, or that there's some backdoor login which has never been changed and that gets exposed.
Like, big companies are *really* stupid and poorly managed.
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u/Civil_Talk_7486 Aug 26 '26
Trump & the GOP-led congress allowed the Chinese to infiltrate sensitive data. They then lied & blamed it on hackers.
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u/doxxingyourself Aug 26 '26
After dissolving the cyber units? Seems pretty stupid on part of the administration
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u/finnhella01 Aug 26 '26
This is the begging of the justification for the executive branch take over of our voting system. Mark my words, next they will claim china cyber attacked our voting machines and they need to take them over to keep them safe.
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u/Traditional_Train_71 Aug 26 '26
At this point, sure why not….if I was a foreign spy, this would be the perfect time to take whatever I want from an imperial nation. Especially with its gov being so incapable and incompetent
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u/Savings_Art5944 Aug 26 '26
Maybe they will release the unredacted Epstein files since the US government is too corrupt to do it.
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u/Tashum Aug 26 '26
US also says they were able to guess Vance's password CouchesRS3xy and Trump's 12345.
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u/ICLazeru Aug 26 '26
Broke in is one way to say it. Paid Trump to let them in is another way to say it.
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u/weareonthisplanet Aug 26 '26
we have nothing to worry about, all the secret info was stolen by DOGE
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u/Unable-Recording-796 Aug 26 '26
Almost like theres an assload of changes that couldve created backdoors by a bunch of people who werent vetted
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u/siromega37 Aug 26 '26
Look at that, they gutted CISA and systems get compromised. Who could have guessed?
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u/Resident-Escape-3441 Aug 26 '26
They fired all our competent agents, what did they think was gonna happen!? Trump did it on purpose to reveal top secret intel to foreign assets.
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u/GrowthDue5259 Aug 26 '26
>>> Trumps rekts fed govt
>>> China hacks into it
>>> trump and MAGA: “it’s not our fault!“
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u/loganbootjak Aug 26 '26
You're telling me Big Balls didn't secure the government computers before he left?
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u/Independent_Tie_4984 Aug 26 '26
Is there any source of US government information that can be trusted?
Serious question - any source that would publish something that "might" upset Donny?
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u/givin_u_the_high_hat Aug 26 '26
Well once everyone gets their Kash Patel MMA training I’m sure this will never happen again.
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u/polysoupkitchen Aug 26 '26
idk who this "US" is but I don't trust them. I'm sure this is just more lies.
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u/RealAmbassador4081 Aug 26 '26
Broke in LMFAO, pretty sure they cut the agency to stop this kind of thing.
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u/Ok_Row_8391 Aug 26 '26
Please release the Epstein files, camera evidence of Mitch's hospital room, and whatever else you want. Delete my loans, make Elons loans 99% APY.
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u/Eddiebaby7 Aug 26 '26
Maybe firing everyone and replacing them with Fox News hosts wasn’t a brilliant decision.
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u/Due-Beginning1074 Aug 26 '26
"We gutted cybersecurity and replaced good folk with hairy big balls and pete_ihatetransppl and China was able to bypass "Password123!"
and by China, we mean some kid in Ohio.
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u/Hegiman Aug 26 '26
Cool. Maybe they can tell us what our own government won’t about the state of our country.
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u/r0bay Aug 26 '26
The DOJ lies about everything. Why would anyone believe this. Maybe it’s true. Maybe Russia hacked them. Maybe it’s China propoganda to get people to hate China instead of Russia and Israel. Or maybe it was just China.
Who knows anymore, but I don’t believe anything the DOJ says.
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u/Altruistic-Star-3862 Aug 26 '26
Can they do any more damage than the buffoons that have been in charge for a year and a half?
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u/ShadowGLI Aug 26 '26
Who could have expected that??? Oh yeah, everyone
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/07/trump-government-budget-cuts-cybersecurity-hacking-risks.html