Allentown- Obama's office buglarized. Took laptops. Web Site Hacked

[TexanDem]

Am I overreacting, or shouldn't this be being reported as kinda serious? I would think this should have been all over the news.

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/obamas_allentowngate_laptops_m.html

Obama's Allentowngate? Laptops missing

Posted April 19, 2008 9:00 PM
by Josh Drobnyk

Barack Obama's Allentown office was burglarized this week, and multiple laptops and cell phones were stolen, an Obama campaign aide said today. A police spokesman confirmed the incident, but couldn't provide details today because reports are kept in the department's records depository, which is closed weekends

An Obama aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said "a couple" field laptops were taken out of the office at 1233 Linden St. The computers have demographic information that the campaign uses to target voters. "A couple" cell phones were also taken, the aide said

Police spokesman Capt James Stephens confirmed the break-in, but could not confirm details of what was taken because the records office is closed on weekends.. When and how the break-in occurred also remained unclear... Stephens would only say that it happened "a couple days ago" The Obama campaign declined to comment officially on the incident

Both campaigns have had their share of incidents at field offices during the race. Obama field offices in California and Iowa have also been broken into. And late last year, a man took campaign workers hostage at a Hillary Clinton field office in Rochester, N.H.


Can't help but wonder if these two aren't directly connected!

Barack Obama Website Hacked By Clinton Supporter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKjomr1Afq0

[loveangelic]

1. I hope their info is locked.

[mythyc]

3. hey you're back!

as Eliot said "my end is my beginning"

welcome :)

[FlyingSquirrel]

5. Yayyy!

My favorite sigline picture is back!

(Oh, hi to you too.)

:D

[bobbert]

2. fixed now.

thanks.

[TexanDem]

4. ok -- edited OP to read "buglarized" instead of "robbed." lol

[bobbert]

6. Hacking happens all of the time

It's better to not report it because doing so just gives the wrongdoers attention.

The burglary will probably be reported Monday because of the lack of details. If nothing was defaced, then it won't be a big deal on the MSM since I think they have bigger things to report. You will see it in the local papers, maybe not until Tuesday when there is more information though. I just think things like this happen pretty often, and the California, Iowa, and New Hampshire incidents weren't HUGE deals.

[anonymous171]

7. I guess Jlake finally snapped.

Probably teamed up with CyberPieHole and P2BA. :rofl:

[MagickMuffin]

8. Why oh WHY, don't the campaigns take the laptops with them?.?.?

It's not like they aren't portable. The night shift should be required to meet up with someone from the morning shift to deliver the laptops and cell phones to, so NO ONE can get access to this valuable info.

It seems the Democrats have still NOT learned their lessons. They NEED to be aware that they have information that other campaigns want. WAKE UP, DEMOCRATS.

[boppers]

9. Hacked? No.

That's a javascript redirect. Almost any user-submitted forum on the internet, if configured to do so, can be set up to do this. I'm guessing the user who was "hacked" has a comment in their web page with the redirect in it. (it's my.barackobama.com, an area of the site where supporters can post their own content.)