On Monday, President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort was indicted by a grand jury , along with two others, including Manafort’s former business associate, Rick Gates. Manafort and Gates have pleaded not guilty.
This development comes after months of news stories about Manafort’s alleged business dealings with foreign governments. These stories inspired curiosity in the minds of computer security researchers, reports Motherboard’s Louise Matsakis.
That curiosity caused a couple of security researchers to dig in and discover that Paul Manafort appeared to be fond of the James-Bond-inspired password “bond007”.
Their interest was piqued in February, after Manafort confirmed to Politico that hackers broke into Manafort’s daughter’s iPhone. As Business Insider previously reported, hackers then published roughly 300,000 of what they said were her text messages – about four years’ worth – to the “dark web.” The dark web is a secret version of the internet often used for criminal activity accessible only via a special browser.