WASHINGTON (EFE).— Former President Donald Trump’s campaign announced yesterday that a hacker, apparently foreign, had breached its systems and gained access to its internal communications.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung confirmed to US media that some of his internal communications had been hacked.
The specialized media Politico reported yesterday that it received emails from an anonymous account at the end of July with documents apparently from the Trump campaign.
The documents received contained what appeared to be “internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official,” the outlet reported.
They also received an investigation that the campaign had apparently conducted on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the document was dated Feb. 23.
“These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the intent of interfering in the 2024 election and sowing chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Cheung said in a statement cited by CNN.
Cheung referred to a Microsoft report published Friday on Iran’s government cyber operations to influence the US presidential election in November.
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In the report, titled “Iran Pushes Forward in 2024 Elections with Cyber-Facilitated Influence Operations,” Microsoft says Iran has “laid the groundwork” for influence campaigns on hot-button election issues and has activated them to stir up controversy among voters, “particularly in swing states.”
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2024-08-22 04:23:10
