Romania presidential candidate announced that it was targeting a cyberattack
The independent candidate for President of Romania and current Mayor of Bucharest Nikushor Dan announced that his social networking profiles are at maximum risk and probably won’t use them to agitate until the end of the election campaign.
« There is an unusual activity. My profiles are attacked by hundreds of thousands of fake accounts. In all three platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Tictoc), we have 10 thousand comments that are in very approximate Romanian language and are made by accounts from Vietnam, Pakistan, Brazil, India.
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He has already filed complaints to state bodies and European institutions, as well as to Instagram, Facebook and Tictoc.
| Nikushor Dan commented that in theory there are specialists from state institutions who can prevent this type of situations, but they do nothing, and that is the reason why the presidential election was canceled in November last year. « I want the state authorities to fulfill their obligations. Especially in the context in which we have offended the elections for this reason, » said the Mayor of Bucharest. |
Asked who could stand behind these attacks, he replied that he had no suspicion.
During the press conference, Nikushor Dan also commented on the accusations that he had used the municipality of the municipality for election purposes.
« I am the mayor of Bucharest and I have to go on a television debate from 8:00 pm. Do you think that when leaving the mayor’s office, I have to go by car at the mayor’s office or go home and use my personal car to go to the debate? I gave you the answer.
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A day ago, Digi24 publishes photos sent to the media editorial showing that Nikushor Dan has participated in events dedicated to the election campaign (interview with B1 TV) using a car belonging to the Bucharest mayoralty. The person who sent the photos to the email address also indicates that she saw Nikushor Dan exit the same car before a debate organized by Antenna TV in parliament on April 9th.
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Article 10 of the Law on Financing the Activity of Political Parties and Election Campaigns in Romania prohibits candidates/political parties from using « financial, human and technical resources belonging to public institutions, to support election or campaign, » local media recall.
