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Iranian Hackers Tried to Tempt Biden’s Campaign With Stolen Trump Info | Hackers have been shopping the information around since the summer when they successfully spear phished a former senior campaign advisor.


Hackers have been shopping the information around since the summer when they successfully spear phished a former senior campaign advisor.

The FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a joint statement on Wednesday explaining the plot. At the time, Politico reported that it had received anonymous emails for an AOL account shopping around internal communications from the Trump campaign. In particular, Russia, Iran, and China are trying by some measure to exacerbate divisions in U.S. society for their own benefit, and see election periods as moments of vulnerability,” the agencies said in the joint statement.

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