Former President Donald Trump has confirmed his campaign was hacked. Hours earlier, Politico reported that had it been sent internal documents from the campaign.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told CNN that the documents were “obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election.”
Citing a report published by Microsoft last week that a group run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “sent a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign,” the Trump campaign linked the hack to Iran.
The said email was sent using the compromised account of a former senior adviser and contained a link that routed traffic through a domain controlled by the hacking group before redirecting to the actual website.
Trump confirmed the hack in a post on Truth Social, saying that hackers only obtained “publicly available information.”
Iran’s mission to the United Nations denied the country’s involvement in the hack, telling The Associated Press that “The Iranian government neither possesses nor harbors any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election.”
The last high-profile cyberattack to hit a US presidential election took place in 2016 when Russian hackers leaked a trove of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee.
