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CatWoman

(80,045 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 03:48 PM Jun 22

Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump's Truth Social Platform

With the world waiting to see how Iran will respond to Saturday night’s U.S. military strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, a group of Iranian-aligned hackers is claiming to have attacked something President Donald Trump holds dear — his Truth Social platform.

Multiple Social media watchdogs confirmed that an Iranian-aligned hacktivist group called “313 Team” claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on Trump’s Truth Social platform just hours after the U.S. strikes. Truth Social went down shortly after 8 p.m. ET on Saturday — moments after Trump announced the strikes on his account.

Users attempting to access the platform during the outage were confronted with messages reading, “Network failed …Please try again.”

The 313 Team claiming responsibility is a component of a larger network of hacktivists aligned with pro-Russian, and pro-Palestinian outfits. Their aim is to disrupt public infrastructure, government websites, and technology companies in Israel and beyond.
ABC News, in a report on the potential threats, said the non-profit think tank the Center for Internet Security (CIS) briefed federal law enforcement on Friday about the possibility of an attack.

“The likelihood of such attacks will increase if the U.S. strikes Iran or overtly provides military support to the Israeli air campaign,” the CIS said.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/iranian-aligned-hackers-claim-responsibility-for-attack-on-trumps-truth-social-platform/

and this is the guy the admin put in place to protect us from this activity: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/critics-ramp-up-scrutiny-on-the-22-year-old-former-lawn-boy-trump-put-in-charge-of-terrorism-prevention-unit-amid-iran-threats-of-retribution/

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Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump's Truth Social Platform (Original Post) CatWoman Jun 22 OP
And the ketchup is flying today. MarineCombatEngineer Jun 22 #1
lol purple_haze Jun 22 #2
I'll Have to Check the Statutes Deep State Witch Jun 22 #3
It's a quandary. I don't want to favor either Trump's platform or Iran. Norrrm Jun 22 #4
If they hack into Israel's dome defense, this could be very bad. Baitball Blogger Jun 22 #5
Oh no! How will the President of the United States of America communicate with us tanyev Jun 22 #6
I wouldn't expect anything resembling security from trump & co...nt Wounded Bear Jun 22 #7
They lie about everything... ultralite001 Jun 22 #8
That's the Onion or Borowitz, yes? mwmisses4289 Jun 22 #11
I wish... ultralite001 Jun 22 #14
wired says otherwise CatWoman Jun 22 #12
I call foul... ultralite001 Jun 22 #15
Y'know, I don't really Bettie Jun 22 #9
Aside from nuclear war this is the thing that worries me most: IcyPeas Jun 22 #10
and that's exactly what happened on 9/11 CatWoman Jun 22 #13

tanyev

(47,106 posts)
6. Oh no! How will the President of the United States of America communicate with us
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 04:15 PM
Jun 22

without the social media platform he owns???

ultralite001

(1,877 posts)
14. I wish...
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 08:34 PM
Jun 22

Truth Social Status Page / operations:

https://truthsocial.statuspage.io/

Truth Social Status Page / historical iOS

https://truthsocial.statuspage.io/uptime

The last reported "incident" was in 02/2023...

Image and video uploads are not working for some users
This incident has been resolved.
Feb 21, 02:54 - 03:28 UTC

ultralite001

(1,877 posts)
15. I call foul...
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 08:43 PM
Jun 22

They're posting "no incidents" for 06/23/2025... It's 06/22/2025, folks... WTF???




The lies just keep on coming...
https://truthsocial.statuspage.io/

Bettie

(18,565 posts)
9. Y'know, I don't really
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 06:18 PM
Jun 22

care if his weird echo chamber got attacked. In fact, it make me laugh.

IcyPeas

(23,885 posts)
10. Aside from nuclear war this is the thing that worries me most:
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 06:26 PM
Jun 22
Their aim is to disrupt public infrastructure, government websites, and technology companies in Israel and beyond.


I fear that they could possibly put us into a complete blackout... no tech, power grids, etc.



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