Trump campaign was hacked, campaign says

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66. The Washington Post has this story, too. They were sent the same documents that Politico received.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/trump-hack-iran-vance-report/

By Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris
August 10, 2024 at 7:18 p.m. EDT

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said on Saturday that it has been the victim of a foreign hack, after the campaign received questions from news organizations about a lengthy vetting document on vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) sent to the outlets.

“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,” Steven Cheung, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement.

Cheung pointed to a report released Friday by Microsoft in which the company said it had discovered evidence that Iranian hackers had tried to break into the email account of a “high-ranking official” on a U.S. presidential campaign in June.

The company did not publicly identify the campaign or confirm whether it believed the hack had been successful. A person familiar with Microsoft’s work confirmed that the report’s reference was to the Trump campaign.