Report: Hackers Targeted Roger Stone’s Email to Access a Senior Trump Campaign Official Account
The FBI also suspects Iran.
Sources told CNN that those who hacked and leaked former President Donald Trump’s campaign documents targeted Roger Stone’s email to access an account belonging to a Trump senior campaign official.
Trump blamed the attack on Iran. From CNN:
The hackers used access to Stone’s email account to try to break into the account of a senior Trump campaign official as part of a persistent effort to access campaign networks, one of the sources said. The hacking incident, which occurred in June, set off a scramble in the Trump campaign, the FBI and Microsoft, which spotted the intrusion attempts, to contain the incident and to determine if there was a broader cyber threat from Iran.
Stone was informed by Microsoft and the FBI that his personal email was compromised by a “Foreign State Actor,” with the intention of utilizing the account to phish officials in the Trump campaign into opening a link that would give perpetrators access to that person’s computer, one of the sources familiar said.
“Mr. Stone was contacted about this matter by Microsoft and the FBI and continues to cooperate with both,” said Grant Smith, an attorney for the Republican operative. “Mr. Stone will have no further comment at this time.”
The FBI also suspects Iran.
A person called “Robert” with an AOL account contacted The Washington Post, claiming they had “access to internal Trump campaign documents.”
The FBI also alerted the then-Biden-Harris campaign in June about Iranian hackers.
Iran denied the allegations:
Iran has denied the allegations, and the US government has not publicly or officially pointed the finger at Iran. But the techniques used by the hackers to target the Trump campaign match those associated with Iranian hackers, according to one source familiar with the matter.
The news adds to growing evidence that Iranian operatives are mounting an aggressive effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election, overshadowing activity from the Russians. US intelligence officials last month warned of an ongoing covert social media campaign by Iran to undercut Trump’s candidacy and to increase “social discord” in the US ahead of the November election. That activity has included creating fake news sites targeting liberal and conservative voters, according to Microsoft.
The US director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has also accused Iran of attempting to covertly stoke protests in the US related to the Israel-Hamas conflict by posing as activists online and in some cases providing financial support to protesters.
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The FBI suspects Iran? That’s odd, I suspect the FBI.
Beat me to it.
While I wouldn’t put it past the Biden DOJ, Trump himself is blaming Iran.
But, even if it were Iran, does it strike anyone as concerning that state sponsors of terror are doing opposition research for the Democratic Party?
Funny, and telling, how America’s enemies never seem to feel the need to hack Biden/Harris’ accounts.
Why bother, when Hillary’s server practically laid out a welcome mat?
Nobody needs to pull dirty tricks on Trump. He will lose all by himself. It is a damn shame DeSantis isn’t running against Harris. He would make mincemeat of her, and win by a comfortable margin. Trump is crying about how unfair everything is and slurring poorly-worded schoolboy insults. It’s painful to watch. He ignores his advisers and acts like a conceited brat finding affirmation from the cheers his verbal diarrhea receives from his hardcore fans.
Well, I am sure your comment will help.
Nothing posted on this site will move the needle either way. It’s not a propaganda site.
Are you suggesting propaganda sites move the needle? Maybe for the other team.
I feel your pain. I will get flamed but an easily winnable election is slipping away. Just like 2020.
I understand your frustration. And, it’s always smart to presume the worst in politics; campaign like you’re 10-points down. BUT, we have no idea where electorate is right now and we won’t know where the electorate is until sometime in September. To put it in perspective, on this day in 2016, Clinton was leading Trump by 7-points. That was only 2-weeks after the GOP convention that saw a small bump for Trump, giving him a very modest lead. It entirely evaporated in a matter of 10-days, swinging 10-points to Clinton. 2-weeks before the convention that same polling average gave Clinton a 6.5-point lead.
They’re doing now what they were doing then: Trying to depress the Republicans.
Maybe you forgot, but DeSantis got clobbered, and crying about his demise serves no purpose.
Maybe you forget, there is a difference between the primaries and the general election. The primaries favor extremist voters.
Matters little. However, to assume that DeSantis would “make mincemeat of her, and win by a comfortable margin” is purely a leap of faith and discounts how things there days can and do turn on a dime.
IRAN????
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TRY THIS:
FBI>>DNC