Anti-Trump Lincoln Project loses $35,000 after paying fake invoices sent by hackers

“A vendor’s email was hacked, with the hackers producing authentic-looking invoices that were sent from our vendor’s legitimate email account. The hack affected multiple clients of the vendor, including Lincoln Project,” spokesman Greg Minchak told the outlet Raw Story.

The "transactions did not impact our operations in any way in the fight for a democratic future for our nation," the spokesman added.

According to the outlet, after the Lincoln Project found out about the hack on one of its vendors, its "compliance firm took immediate steps to mitigate the problem," Minchak told reporters. “This included notifying our bank’s fraud department and implementing new procedures to confirm invoices and payments. Since it was the vendor that was hacked, we are letting them and our bank's fraud department lead any investigation.”

When he was asked to identify what vendor had been hacked, the spokesman declined to answer. "We value the privacy of the vendor and have no additional comment," he said.

In filings to the Federal Election Commission obtained by Raw Story, the organization marked that it had lost $35,000 as a result of "fraudulent" transactions. One of these transactions amounted to $15,000 on Feb. 28 which was labeled as an ACH payment. Among the vendors who receive five-figure payments or more include several law firms, political consultants, as well as media companies.

Minchak himself gets a $10,000 payment each month from the anti-Trump group as a contractor.

Despite the mission of the project to tear down Trump, he has still become the presumptive GOP nominee going into the 2024 election.