A grand jury has indicted multiple Iranians on charges related to hacking Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
The federal charges stem from an Iranian operation that allegedly stole internal Trump campaign communications this summer, according to three people familiar with the investigation who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.
Stolen materials from the Trump campaign were later sent to journalists and the Joe Biden campaign before Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee.
The names of the defendants and the specific criminal charges were not immediately available.
A grand jury secretly approved the indictment on Thursday afternoon. The Justice Department is expected to announce the charges as soon as Friday.The Justice Department and the Trump campaign declined to comment.
Last month, the Trump campaign confirmed that it had been hacked after POLITICO and other news organizations received internal campaign documents from an anonymous email account, including a research dossier on Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate. The campaign blamed Tehran for the breach. A Microsoft report on Aug.
8 said Iranian hackers had “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.”
This month, U.S. security agencies released an unusual statement saying Iranians sent material stolen from the former president’s campaign to people linked to Biden’s reelection team (which later morphed into Harris’ campaign). The statement said there is no sign the recipients responded.
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@S3curityArianaForward2yrs2Y
Since it was done in secret, it seems really sketchy, almost like it could’ve been directed by someone on the inside. Sound familiar?
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