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A member of the Trump campaign has confirmed that hackers have obtained and leaked confidential documents to the media. The hackers could be Iranian.
Politico reported Saturday that it had received “emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation.” In response, Trump’s campaign pointed to a new Microsoft report that claimed Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft has not clarified if Donald Trump was the targeted candidate, but the Trump campaign blamed “foreign sources.”
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said, according to Politico, “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process.”
Cheung added, “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.
