A hacker stole more than $3,000 from Sen. Cory Booker’s reelection committee, according to a federal filing reviewed by NOTUS.
The $3,092 unauthorized charge to American Express by an unknown person took place on Dec. 17, Booker’s campaign told the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday. The committee opened a new bank account to “prevent any future fraudulent activity” and disputed the transaction with its bank, but it hasn’t yet recouped the lost money, it wrote in a letter to the FEC.
“Last year our campaign became aware of a small amount of suspicious bank activity,” Booker’s communications director, David Bergstein, said in a statement to NOTUS. “We immediately reported the issue to our bank so they could follow the appropriate processes and implemented additional security protocols. No donor information was accessed and no unauthorized individual gained internal access to our account.”