Among a host of unproven accusations, Trump claimed that Neustar -- which allegedly provided domain name service resolution services to the Executive Office of the President -- mined that traffic in order to gather derogatory information.
The complaint also alleged that another defendant in the case, Michael Sussman -- a cybersecurity attorney who had worked for the Democratic National Committee -- commissioned Neustar to “hack servers from highly-sensitive locations” including Trump Tower and the White House, in order to “uncover proprietary data that could then be manipulated to give the impression that Trump was engaged in illegitimate business with a Russian bank.”
Based on those allegations, Trump claimed that Neustar violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an anti-hacking law that prohibits anyone from accessing computer servers without authorization.
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The complaint also alleged that another defendant in the case, Michael Sussman -- a cybersecurity attorney who had worked for the Democratic National Committee -- commissioned Neustar to “hack servers from highly-sensitive locations” including Trump Tower and the White House, in order to “uncover proprietary data that could then be manipulated to give the impression that Trump was engaged in illegitimate business with a Russian bank.”
Based on those allegations, Trump claimed that Neustar violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an anti-hacking law that prohibits anyone from accessing computer servers without authorization.
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