An alleged Iranian hack of Donald Trump's campaign also led to hackers breaching the email account of veteran Republican operative Roger Stone, an adviser to the former president, according to reports.
CNN reported that hackers had compromised Stone's email address and then used his account to “attempt to break into the account of a senior Trump campaign official.” The Washington Post reported that phishing emails were sent to Trump officials from Stone's account.
The news that Stone had been hacked came after The politician revealed it The former president's campaign group later claimed Iran was responsible for the hack and distribution of the documents, and a spokesman said Saturday that hackers had gained access to the account of a “senior official.”
He The FBI said This week, it was investigating alleged hacking attempts by Iran targeting both the Trump and Kamala Harris campaigns, though a spokesperson for the US vice president said her team was “not aware of any security breach of our systems.”
Roger Stone’s involvement is curious, as he was convicted of seven felonies in 2019 in a case centered on WikiLeaks’ publication of emails damaging to Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 election that she lost to Trump. Stone was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, but Trump commuted the sentence during his presidency.
CNN reported that Microsoft and the FBI had informed Stone that his email had been hacked by an “agent of a foreign state.” The intent was to use Stone’s account “to trick Trump campaign officials into opening a link that would give the perpetrators access to that person’s computer,” CNN said, citing unnamed sources.
“I’ve been informed by the authorities that a couple of my personal email accounts have been compromised,” Stone told the Washington Post. “I don’t really know anything more about it. And I’m cooperating. It’s all very strange.”
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump showed support for foreign states releasing hacked documents. At a press conference that July, Trump said“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you can find the missing 30,000 emails,” a reference to messages sent and received from a private account Clinton had while she was secretary of state under President Barack Obama.
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Clinton turned over 33,000 emails to the State Department for review, and in 2019 the department said it had found “no persuasive evidence of systematic and deliberate mishandling of classified information.”
