Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign tool says internal communications were hacked. His team believes Iran is behind it.
The statement came from Trump campaign staff on Saturday, shortly after the news website politics reported that he received emails on July 22 from an anonymous source who identified himself only as “Robert” offering real documents from inside the Trump campaign apparatus, including a report on “the potential vulnerability of Trump’s vice presidential nominee JD Vance.
– These documents were obtained illegally by foreign sources who are hostile to the United States, and intend to interfere with the 2024 election and spread chaos in our democratic process, says Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung in a statement.
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Trump’s team is referring to a report from Microsoft on Friday in which the company indicated that hackers with ties to the Iranian government tried in June to break into the email accounts of a “senior executive”. in the US presidential election campaign.
The hackers managed to take control of an email account belonging to a former political consultant and then used this account to attack the official using phishing tactics, according to Microsoft’s description.
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A Microsoft spokesman declined Reuters requests to name the service provider or provide more information about the identities of those involved.
The AP news agency has reached out to the US National Security Council for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Iran’s UN delegation have not responded to Reuters requests for comment on the matter.
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Iran says it is not interfering
But Iran’s UN delegation in New York referred to the Microsoft report when the Iranians were asked by Reuters about the issue. The response was that Iran’s cyber activity is “defensive and proportionate to the threats facing the country”, and that Iran has no plans to carry out cyber attacks.
– The US presidential election is an internal matter where Iran will not interfere, the UN delegation said.
– The Iranians know that Trump is going to end the reign of terror, just as he did in his first four years in the White House, Cheung says, referring to the United States on January 3, 2020 under Trump killed the commander of the elite force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qasem Soleimani.
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Trump survived an assassination attempt in July. There is no evidence that the suspect had ties to Iran. But CNN reported last month that US intelligence had information about an Iranian plot against Trump. Iran has denied it.
The campaign team of Vice President Kamala Harris has not responded to the AP’s questions about opinions on the matter, or questions about the Democrats’ own measures against hacking.
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