Posted on 08/10/2024 12:45:05 PM PDT by bitt
The Trump campaign has confirmed that internal communications have been hacked and leaked to the media. The campaign confirmed the cybercrime after Politico received a series of stolen documents on Saturday.
Trump’s team believes Iran may have been behind the hack but has not released any information on the perpetrator.
Politico reports:
The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaigns’ suggestion that it was targeted by Iran.
“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 said in a statement provided to the outlet. “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.”
Cheung did not comment about if the campaign has been in touch with Microsoft to confirm.
Politico claims it began receiving the emails in late July.
The report states:
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
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CIA, FBI?
Ok, before this gets out of hand, there are now two different postings on the same topic. Let’s not see a dozen more folks. Search is our friend.
Remember the Snowden revelations—the NSA can emulate hackers from Russia, China, Iran etc etc etc.
One would think they would have seen this coming, as it happened last time.
You didn’t really think the FBI would just go silent since their assassination plot failed did you???
*watergate* done by democrats / rinos.
Not a good sign for things to come in November.
They should have stored it in the clouds over our heads.
For who?
I’d say so.
The FBI, CIA or the DOJ one of those did it purposely to get the stolen valor out of the new cycle! I’m telling you these people are evil they know what they’re doing and they’re master experts in all situations. Trump better hire a food taster cause that’ll be next!
They tried to assassinate him with a bullet, they try to sabotage his plane yesterday, and now they hacked his computer so when that fails to generate any fire they’re gonna go for the very last option on their list…. poison.
I’ve wondered about DJT’s cell phone security for a long time.
For us. Already there are shenanigans going on re hacking to take down Trump. It. Never. Stops. I hate those guys!
/sarcasm
Probably not Iran behind the hacks, nor RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA, but CIA or NSA. They’re not working for us, they’re working for themselves and for globalists. And maybe China.
The question is when will politico weaponize the information?
I find it very difficult to believe that anyone in such a position would fall for a phishing email.
But then I've seen some pretty smart people do some really stupid things...
There is no such thing as a web site that cant be hacked, if someone wants to hack it, consider it done. Do I think it was Iran, its possible..they dont want Trump to win, they know they have a friend in Harris, with her they can do whatever they damn well please and get away with it and leave Israel out in the cold. Seriously for a party that keeps on saying that Trump has no chance of winning, they are trying EVERYTHING under the sun to get rid of him..what has not happened to this man, impeachments, assassination attempts, sabotaging his plane(Yeah I believe 100 percent it was intentional) and now this..what next, poisoning
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