The website of a cryptocurrency venture promoted by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump uses an anonymous privacy service that has been previously linked to Russian cybercriminals, Newsweek has found.
World Liberty Financials’ website is registered to a domain host that provides privacy solutions via Withheld for Privacy, a service based in Iceland that allows websites to hide the details of their domains.
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by World Liberty Financial in using the services of Withheld for Privacy, but it raises questions over what exactly the company is, who is behind it and how it will do business.
World Liberty Financial declined to comment to Newsweek. A Trump representative did not respond to Newsweek’s request for comment.
Trump and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have posted about World Liberty Financial on social media, although full details of the project are yet to be announced.
Jay Kesten, a law professor who …