{"id":159867,"date":"2024-08-11T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=159867"},"modified":"2024-08-10T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T20:19:21","slug":"trump-campaign-hacked-information-provided-to-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159867","title":{"rendered":"Trump Campaign hacked; information provided to Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Trump campaign reported that it had been hacked. A hacker obtained some documents from the campaign, and then turned them over to Politico. When the Politico contact tried to get more information about the circumstances surrounding the obtaining of the documents, the hacker refused to provide more details. The hacker did not want to be compromised and if Politico’s question was answered, the latter would not be able to publish the documents.<\/p>\n

From Politico:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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. “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.”<\/p>\n

Cheung declined to say whether the campaign had been in contact with Microsoft or law enforcement about the breach, saying it would not discuss such conversations.<\/p>\n

On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official. A research dossier the campaign had apparently done on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, which was dated Feb. 23, was included in the documents. The documents are authentic, according to two people familiar with them and granted anonymity to describe internal communications. One of the people described the dossier as a preliminary version of Vance’s vetting file.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isenstadt, A. (2024, August 10). We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ The campaign just confirmed it was hacked. Politico<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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