14 DAY TRIAL // A group of unknown teenagers hacked Donald Trump's voicemail, downloaded 35 messages, and replaced his outgoing voicemail message.
The incident happened during last week and was the result of a group of friends deciding to prank-call Trump on one of the phone numbers leaked by Gawker last summer.
One of those numbers was apparently still up and working, and the group managed to social-engineer a Verizon customer support representative into resetting the voicemail's PIN. The hackers accessed his voicemail, which was full and contained a lot of old messages, some of them left months if not years ago.
Hackers left a voicemail inbox in the voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo
After downloading and deleting the content of the voicemail inbox, the group also decided to change the outgoing voicemail message, the one people hear when calling the number.
When Trump's phone numbers were leaked last summer, facing an avalanche of prank callers, the presidential candidate decided to change his outgoing voicemail with his standard campaign message that was urging users to donate to his presidential campaign via his website.
The hackers deleted this message and recorded one in the voice of Matthew Lillard (the actor who played Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movies) and redirected users to a 4chan forum board that contained, among other things, a lot of pornography.
Hackers sent all the voicemail messages to Gawker
After their deed was done, the hackers sent an email to Gawker with all the downloaded messages, of which Gawker released three to the public, two from Tamron Hall (NBC News correspondent) and one from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski (co-hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe show).
Gawker says that the messages seem to be authentic. Other voice messages The Donald received were from New England Patriots NFL quarterback Tom Brady, boxing promoter Don King, and David Axelrod, the chief strategist of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.The rest of the messages were just prank calls, presumably recorded after Gawker outed the number.
Below is a video of the hackers recording Donald Trump's new voicemail greeting message.
Not the first time Trump got hacked
Ever since he decided he wanted to become the Republican's party representative for this year's presidential election, Mr. Trump's mouth has constantly got him into trouble, especially with hackers.
In August last year, a group of hackers that identified as "Jon Stewart fans" defaced Donald Trump's campaign website.
In early December of 2015, Anonymous launched DDoS attacks on the Trump Towers NY website after Donald Trump made several anti-Muslim comments.
In early January 2016, New World Hacking, the group of hackers that took down the BBC website with one of the biggest DDoS attacks ever recorded, also targeted Trump's campaign website, again for his racist speech.
There are some inaccurate media reports circulating on the Internet saying that Anonymous is behind this hack. They are blatantly wrong.