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The US Justice Department on Friday filed criminal charges against three Iranians on suspicion of allegedly hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and disseminating stolen information to media organizations. The Justice Department said the three accused hackers were serving in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Washington. The US Justice Department on Friday filed criminal charges against three Iranians on suspicion of allegedly hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and disseminating stolen information to media organizations. The Justice Department said the three accused hackers served in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and that their propaganda campaign targeted a number of people, including government officials, members of the media and non-governmental organizations.
The Trump campaign disclosed on August 10 that it had been hacked and said that the three accused in Iran had stolen and disseminated sensitive internal documents. Several major news organizations, including Politico, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, said they had been leaked confidential Trump campaign information, but declined to broadcast it.
US intelligence officials later linked Iran to efforts to hack Trump’s election campaign and the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign. Last week, officials also revealed that in late June and early July the Iranians sent unsolicited emails containing excerpts of the hacked information to people associated with the Biden campaign.
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