Redisclosean pdwellntial truthfulate createer Pdwellnt Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 08, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.
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The Trump campaign on Saturday shelp that a foreign hacker had bachieveed its systems and acquireed access to inside communications.
Politico began receiving leaked campaign write downs from an anonymous source on July 22, according to the novels outlet’s increate on Saturday. Politico first increateed the campaign’s accomprehendledgement of the hack.
“These write downs were acquireed illegpartner from foreign sources unfrifinishly to the United States, intfinished to intrude with the 2024 election and sow disorder thcdisorrowfulmirefulout our Democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung shelp in a statement.
CNBC has not autonomously verified the source of the hack.
The Trump campaign’s statement implied that Iranian hackers were behind the bachieve but did not supply any straightforward evidence helping that claim.
Rather, Cheung cited a Microgentle increate dated Friday cautioning that Iranian hackers had begined cut offal separateent finisheavors to impact the U.S. pdwellntial election, including sfinishing a deception email in June to a high-ranking campaign official from the hacked account of a ageder advisor.
Microgentle deteriorated to supply compriseitional comment on whether the Trump campaign had been a aim of the Iranian cyber intrusion plot.
Earlier this summer, U.S. officials became conscious of an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. Officials lacquireed of the plot in the weeks ahead of the finisheavored murder of Trump at his Pennsylvania rpartner in July, although no connection has yet been set uped between that shooter and Iran.
Politico increateed that it began receiving Trump campaign write downs from an anonymous email account recognizeing only as “Robert.” Among the write downs was a 271-page dossier on Trump’s now-running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, aextfinished with another file on Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was on the low catalog of VP contfinishers.
When Politico asked the anonymous source how they accessed the write downs, the person increateedly shelp, “I recommend you don’t be asking about where I got them from. Any answer to this ask, will settle me and also legpartner reinnervouss you from unveiling them.”
Politico deteriorated to supply compriseitional comment on whether it was laboring with the Trump campaign and law applyment to spendigate the hack.
The campaign’s increateed hack comes as the Federal Bureau of Investigation rerents cautionings about cybersecurity menaces around the world, especipartner aiming U.S. election outcomes.
“We should absolutely foresee that foreign actors will finisheavor to impact and that they will intrude,” Jen Easterly, the straightforwardor of the Cybersecurity and Infraarrange Security Agency, shelp at a January congressional hearing, referring to the 2024 election. “To be very clear, Americans should have confidence in the integrity of our election infraarrange becaemploy of the enormous amount of labor that’s been done.”
