Trump campaign confirms security breach, blames Iran – DW – 08/11/2024
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News outlet Politico said it had received anonymous emails from inside Donald Trump's campaign operation. The Republican presidential nominee's team says its communications were hacked, and said Iran was responsible.

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign team said Saturday that some of its international communications had been hacked by those “hostile” to the United States.

“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,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.

Cheung was responding to revelations by the Politico news outlet that it had begun receiving emails from an anonymous account containing documents from within the Republican Party candidate’s campaign operation.

Trump’s campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement but did imply that Tehran was responsible by mentioning a report by Microsoft researchers that was published this week.

The report said Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a “high-ranking official” on the US presidential campaign in June.

That report did not provide further details on the official’s identity.

    • Tire@lemmy.ml
      9·
      3 months ago

      Iran doesn’t want the US to collapse, they want rational actors in the White House. They had a stable plan under Obama then Trump came along and started complaining about random “bad deals” and scrapped the agreements.

    • Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world
      121·
      3 months ago

      New? Hardly. Republicans have been using Iran as a scapegoat for decades. I can remember Bush admin being filled with Iran hawks and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it go back to Reagan or further still

  • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    My assumption is Trump and his top advisors all have regular and friendly dealings with foreign adversaries.

    So I expect this was less of a security breach and more of an accidental disclosure along with other intentionally disclosed information. Something along the lines of an assistant was asked to email the candidate dossiers and oppo research, and they zipped up the entire folder sitting on their desktop named “candidates”.

  • Waldowal@lemmy.world
    211·
    3 months ago

    I think they leaked this themselves:

    • Makes it look like they knew how much Vance sucks going into it, so their decision looks less stupid
    • Tries to re-create a boogeyman in Iran for everyone to be scared of
    • Doesn’t actually leak anything that damning (i.e.: “See, no more pussy grabbing!”)
    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      3 months ago

      Makes it look like they knew how much Vance sucks going into it, so their decision looks less stupid

      Doesn’t that make their decision look more stupid?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    44·
    3 months ago

    Anyone know what docs have been published? I’m semi-tempted to load Google news, but I have a self-imposed blackout on doing so for my own mental health. I don’t need to get massively depressed between now and November.

    • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      What I’ve read so far indicates that Politico has received the documents, but hasn’t published them directly yet.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      26·
      3 months ago

      I don’t know about published, but the article says that Politico received internal email communications and the campaign’s vetting dossier for Vance. So probably nothing earth-shattering.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
        12·
        3 months ago

        the campaign’s vetting dossier for Vance

        Wouldn’t this kinda read like a list of all the things about Vance they’d prefer were not part of the public discourse?

        • BossDj@lemm.ee
          6·
          3 months ago

          No, in the actual politico article (I don’t know why people keep posting other sources) it says everything in the documents was already publicly available information. Just an organized collection of it all

      • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
        20·
        3 months ago

        They have the best emails. Like MIT. Emm Eye Tee. Ya know, I have a thing with MIT. Genius. Smart people. So I said to them, “what do you think of Iran having my emails?” And they said, “are you sure it’s Iran? it’s probably the Democrats.” They’re like sharks, Democrats! Sharks swarming this beautiful boat with a battery. Which, if you ask me is a very dangerous thing, the battery. Because what if it electrocutes you? I’ll take the sharks over electrocution any day. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner, folks. Just like that nasty, nasty woman. I bet she feeds the sharks, Nancy Pelosi. AND HER HUSBAND! The leader of the transgenders. They want to take it all away. Take it all away. They want to give your job to transgendered immigrants. Let me tell you. The late great Hannibal Lecter would know what to do.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    “Confirms security breech” = “we’re fucking morons and we deliberately clicked a pop up scam that said ‘free pictures of hulk Hogan with his shirt off’ as long as you tell us your mother’s maiden name and your first dogs name”

    • SirNameHere@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      Given how much IQ is talked about, I was thinking it was a free IQ test.

      It’s like 10,000 spoons when all you need if a knife.