Trump campaign says it was hacked by 'foreign sources' after J.D. Vance dossier was leaked

Donald Trump's campaign has reported being hacked after Politico received a "dossier on J.D. Vance" from an anonymous account, the news agency reported on Saturday.

Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt flagged the news on social media, saying, "Trump's campaign says it has been hacked."

"The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation, including a dossier on JD Vance," Isenstadt wrote Saturday.

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According to the report, the Trump campaign "blamed 'foreign sources hostile to the United States,' citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers 'sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.'"

"Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday," the report states. "POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaigns’ suggestion that it was targeted by Iran."

As for the anonymous account sending info from the campaign, the article states that "On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as 'Robert' — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official."

"A research dossier the campaign had apparently done on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, which was dated Feb. 23, was included in the documents," it states. "The documents are authentic, according to two people familiar with them and granted anonymity to describe internal communications. One of the people described the dossier as a preliminary version of Vance’s vetting file."

Read the full article from Politico here.

NEWS: Trump’s campaign says it has been hacked

The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation, including a dossier on JD Vancehttps://t.co/Cqh1TJWPl0
— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) August 10, 2024