Iranian hackers publish portions of Trump's campaign emails - Reuters
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An Iranian hacker group has achieved a partial release of correspondence from US presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign. This group of hackers is believed to be involved in the hacking of Trump's campaign emails, according to Reuters.
It is noted that the operation to leak Trump's campaign correspondence began around July when journalists from several media outlets received an anonymous email from the address noswamp@aol.com from someone named Robert, who promised to provide incriminating information about former President Trump.
Later, in early September, according to an anonymous source for the agency, Iranian hackers used a second email address, bobibobi.007@aol.com, and offered reports on politicians that Trump was then considering for the vice presidency.
Ultimately, no media outlet published any materials based on these leaked data.
However, at the end of September, the organization American Muckrakers began publishing internal emails from Trump's campaign. By the end of the month, independent national security reporter Ken Klippenstein published an article on Substack based on information from the Iranian hackers.
Later, Klippenstein stated that he was contacted by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who warned him that Robert was part of a foreign influence operation.
Hacker attack on Trump's team
On August 11, Trump's campaign headquarters reported that their computers had been hacked.
According to a report from Google, Iran, as part of a prolonged phishing attack, targeted around a dozen individuals connected to Biden, Harris, and Trump. It later became known that the FBI was investigating the hacking of the electoral campaigns of US presidential candidates.
US intelligence officials are confident that Iran is responsible for the hacking and attempted hacking of the computers of the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden.
At the end of September, the US accused three Iranian agents of hacking Trump's campaign computers.
