US election: Trump's election campaign was hacked by Iran, former president's team alleges

Washington: Former US President Donald Trump's presidential campaign on Saturday said it has been hacked, as reported by US-based news agency, Politico. The claim comes after an anonymous email from an account using AOL, who identified himself as Robert Trump, contained documents from within Trump's campaign.
The campaign pointed to a Microsoft report released Friday that attributed the breach to foreign sources hostile to the United States, as reported by Politico.
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Iranian hackers sent phishing emails
The report claimed that Iranian hackers sent a spear phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign in June. However, Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email. Politico further reported that it did not confirm the identity of the hacker and does not know the intent behind the act. Cheung said, these documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States with the aim of interfering with the 2024 election and sowing chaos in our democratic process.
Documents Included
A new Microsoft report on Friday found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a high-ranking US presidential campaign official in June 2024, coinciding with the timing of President Trump's selection of a vice presidential candidate, Politico reported, citing Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung. Politico reported receiving emails from a senior Trump campaign official that included a research dossier dated February 23 on Trump's running mate JD Vance and a similar document on Senator Marco Rubio.
The dossier, a 271-page document consisting of Vance's publicly available records, contained a section titled Potential Vulnerabilities. The hacker also sent Politico a portion of a similar research document on Senator Marco Rubio, the eventual candidate for the vice presidential nomination, as Politico reported.
Some reports surfaced in July that US intelligence had found evidence that Iran was plotting to kill Trump in revenge for his decision to order the killing of Iranian military official Qassem Soleimani in 2020, as Politico reported.
There was no indication whether Trump's shooter, who attempted to assassinate Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, was linked to Iran. “The Iranians know that President Trump will stop their reign of terror, just as he has done in his first four years in the White House,” Cheung said in a statement, quoted by Politico.
The Iranian mission to the United Nations said it attaches no credibility to such reports and said the Iranian government has neither any intention nor any motive to interfere in the United States presidential election, the mission said in a statement, as reported by CNN.
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