Would love to put in LBN, but...judge for yourself. Hackers holding Romney's tax returns for ransom

[TalkingDog]

http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/anonymous-group-allegedly-hacked-romney-tax-records-franklin-firm

An anonymous individual or group is alleging that they have gained "all available 1040 tax forms" of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney by accessing computers in the Franklin office of the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

An anonymous posting on a text-sharing website states that PwC has been hacked. This same website has been used by hackers who have claimed to have infiltrated computers from companies like Apple in the past.

An excerpt from one message states:

"Romney's 1040 tax returns were taken from the PWC office 8/25/2012 by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building. Once on the 3rd floor, the team moved down the stairs to the 2nd floor and setup shop in an empty office room. During the night, suite 260 was entered, and all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied. A package was sent to the PWC on suite 260 with a flash drive containing a copy of the 1040 files, plus copies were sent to the Democratic office in the county and copies were sent to the GOP office in the county at the beginning of the week also containing flash drives with copies of Romney's tax returns before 2010. A scanned signature image for Mitt Romney from the 1040 forms were scanned and included with the packages, taken from earlier 1040 tax forms gathered and stored on the flash drives.

[rocktivity]

1. This has been a Karl Rove presentation

rocktivity

[CoffeeCat]

6. I thought the same thing...

It sounds utterly ridiculous. I don't believe the story because I don't know any hacker who would do this for money.

It just doesn't fit.

I wouldn't put a stunt like this past Rove. We know they did it before with the Dan Rather/Bush situation.

No way would hacker nerds want money. And it mskes no sense at all that someone believes they could pull off getting the money without the crime being traced.

[INdemo]

7. That was my first thought and in fact I posted it as Karl Rove scheme

I think what is happening is ..nothing is working for the Repukes. i think their internal polls are showing that Obama is so far ahead that its out of reach...Even the millions that will be spread over the air waves wont work because of all the fact checking....
So Karl Rove is trying to create a "Watergate of 2012..
I would think if this is false and traced back to Rove he should go to jail....

[Honeycombe8]

2. It's been posted about already, so not LBN. Not sure if I believe it yet. nt

[TalkingDog]

4. Same here. I'm from Missouri on this one.

Show me.

[yourout]

3. "It's a trap"

[flamingdem]

5. I wanted to see that

since I heard this tax story ... a trrap!!

[MiniMe]

8. Even if it is true, I don't want his returns released under these circumstances

I think Romney should release his returns, but if they have been stolen from PWC, that is the wrong way to go about it.