Trump campaign says it was attacked by foreign powers

this trump card The campaign said Saturday Foreign hackers had penetrated its systems and gained access to internal communications.

According to Politico, it began receiving leaked campaign documents from anonymous sources on July 22. News media coverage The campaign’s admission of being hacked was first reported by Politico on Saturday.

“These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election and sow chaos in our democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesman Siping Chang said in a statement.

CNBC has not independently verified the source of the hack.

The Trump campaign’s statement suggested Iranian hackers were behind the intrusion but did not provide any direct evidence to support the claim.

Instead, Zhang cites Microsoft Friday’s report warned that Iranian hackers have repeatedly tried to influence the U.S. presidential election, including sending a phishing email to a senior campaign official in June from the hacked account of a senior adviser.

Microsoft declined to provide further comment on whether the Trump campaign was targeted by Iranian hackers.

Earlier this summer, U.S. officials realized that Iranian conspiracy Officials learned of the plot weeks before the failed assassination attempt on Trump at a July rally in Pennsylvania, though no connection between the gunman and Iran has been established.

Politico reported that it began receiving Trump campaign documents from an anonymous email account identified only as “Robert.” The documents included a 271-page dossier on Trump’s current running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, and another on Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was on the short list of vice presidential candidates.

When Politico asked the anonymous source how they obtained the documents, the source allegedly said: “I advise you not to be curious about where I got these documents. Any answer to this question would endanger me and legally restrict you from releasing these documents.”

Politico declined to provide further comment. Is it cooperating with the Trump campaign and law enforcement to investigate the hack?

The campaign hack came as the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned of global cybersecurity threats, particularly to the outcome of the U.S. election.

“We should absolutely expect that foreign powers will try to exert influence and interfere,” Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said at a congressional hearing in January about the 2024 election. “To be clear, Americans should have confidence in the integrity of our election infrastructure because of the work we’ve done.”