{"id":24909,"date":"2020-05-18T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24909"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T22:25:59","slug":"nothing-to-see-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24909","title":{"rendered":"NOTHING TO SEE HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The celebrity law firm targeted by a hacking group with a $42 million ransom demand said Sunday that it had no previous relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rgrwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbwwnlrg_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rgrwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbwwnlrg_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589926252730000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYI_XnIVDFNswepEdRxy1rHyz2YA\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0after the hackers threatened to release damaging information on him and others.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Grubman, Shire, Meiselas &amp; Sacks, P.C.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshllvprk_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshllvprk_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589926252730000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH90sY-CSn_19yfaZiV78jWL3yVjQ\">told CNN<\/a>\u00a0that the firm had never listed Trump among its high-profile clients, which include names behind top brands such as Vera Wang and Tommy Hilfiger.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill on whether Trump had any relationship with the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers from a group identified by experts as &#8220;REvil&#8221; or &#8220;Sodinokibi&#8221; targeted the firm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vhkmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmmpyvj_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vhkmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmmpyvj_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589926252730000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFS0B3KCW4CBORlF9XA19mu-aJcBA\">with a ransomware attack<\/a>, locking up\u00a0its network and demanding $42 million in ransom in a post to a dark web forum first reported by Variety on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The group later claimed that it would release politically damaging information on Trump should the firm refuse to pay the ransom, while also stating that it had received $365,000 from the firm so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next person we&#8217;ll be publishing is Donald Trump. There&#8217;s an election race going on, and we found a ton of dirty laundry,\u201d the group&#8217;s post reportedly read. \u201cAnd to you voters, we can let you know that after such a publication, you certainly don&#8217;t want to see him as president.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The celebrity law firm targeted by&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24910,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909\/revisions\/24910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}