The campaign team of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Saturday it had been hacked, accusing an agent “overseas” of intercepting its internal communications and stealing them, as well as a file on J. D. Vance, the party’s candidate for the vice presidency. Mr Trump’s team hinted that Iran was behind the hacking. News website Politico previously reported receiving emails from an anonymous user with internal campaign documents attached. “These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States with the intent to interfere in the 2024 election and wreak havoc on our democratic process,” a spokesman for the former Republican president’s campaign, Stephen Chang, said in a statement. Mr. Chang was referring to a report on the incident released by Microsoft earlier this week that said Iranian hackers “sent an email containing a ‘hook’ to a senior executive in June.” […]
Source: News Beast
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