Hacking Doesn't Change the Truth According to This Mother's Son!

Hackers Attempt to Shift World’s Best Mother Title

By JONATHAN MARTIN    May 14, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hackers exploiting malicious software stolen from the National Security Agency attempted Sunday morning to have President Trump appointed The World’s Best Mother.

The attacks had begun Friday and locked users out of their computers with the threat that their data would be destroyed unless ransoms were paid. The attack quickly spread throughout the world.

Early Sunday morning, the attacks took a turn, with the hackers advising that instead of paying $300 and up as originally demanded, the new demand was that the world recognize President Trump as The World’s Best Mother.

However, the hackers appear to have underestimated the world’s resolved in universally recognizing The World’s Best Mother, Tina Martin.

Across the world, people interviewed said they would never change their opinion of something so important just to save the data on their computer.

Many people reported that they often can’t find their files anyway, or find their email inbox is behaving mysteriously independently of any hacking.

The attack was likened to the spread of fake news prior the 2016 US presidential election that is credited with helping Donald J Trump win the presidency. On Sunday security experts warned they were seeing similar fake news stories intended to advance the case for President Trump being The World’s Best Mother. 

But so far these fake new stories do not seem to be gaining traction as they did during the presidential election campaign, with many saying they viewed World’s Best Mother status as a more serious matter that should not be subject to jokes or fakery.

Ms. Martin’s sister Dana Langner was reached Sunday morning and said, “Sometimes conspiracies against us are really for us.” Asked to elaborate, she said that the while there might be an organized conspiracy to undermine Ms. Martin, there was a much broader worldwide agreement to recognize her achievement.

In a further development, Ms. Martin found Saturday that she could not click to reply to emails with the email open. This was determined to be a further attempt by the attackers to isolate Ms. Martin, but another that seems to have failed. Ms. Martin identified that she could still select the email and click “Reply” from the inbox, thereby allowing her to stay in contact with thousands of people.

The hacking methods are believed to have been developed by the NSA. A group calling itself the “Shadow Brokers” began to share hacking weapons stolen from the US government last summer.

A senior staff member at the NSA, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak with the media, said, “As members of the deep state, we like to imagine that across administrations we can continue our work quietly and effectively. But sometimes a crisis like this occurs and we see what sort of threats we face.”

President Trump had sent the below tweet on Friday:

This was originally believed to be in reference to coverage of his firing the FBI director, James Comey, during the escalation of the investigation of Russian involvement in Trump’s election win. But sources inside the White House said Trump might have actually been referring to early reports that Tina Martin would remain the world’s choice as Best Mother.

In any case, it appears Ms. Martin’s title is safe.