Donalds Trump’s presidential campaign has declared that the Iranian government hacked one of its websites.
The hackers failed to garner anything but already public information, Trump said.
In addition to this, the FBI is also investigating an hack targeting advisers to the democratic campaign, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Politico said on Saturday that it began receiving emails on July 22 from an anonymous account. The source (an AOL email account identified only as “Robert”) passed along what appeared to be a research dossier the campaign had apparently done on the Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance. The document was dated February 23, almost five months before Trump selected Vance as V.P.
The FBI began the investigation in June, suspecting that Iran was behind the attempts to steal data from two U.S. presidential campaigns.
The Trump campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement, but the claim came shortly after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts to interfere in the U.S. election in 2024. The report cited an instance of an Iranian military intelligence unit in June sending “a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor”, says the Associated Press.
“Iranian cyber-enabled influence operations have been a consistent feature of at least the last three U.S. election cycles. Iran’s operations have been notable and distinguishable from Russian campaigns for appearing later in the election season and employing cyberattacks more geared toward election conduct than swaying voters”, says the Microsoft report.
The Iranian government has denied that it hacked the Trump campaign.
