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The DOJ indicts Iranians for alleged Trump campaign ‘hack-and-leak’ scheme
One of the leaked documents was published this week.
The three hackers, all of whom have ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, allegedly gained access to the accounts of campaign officials using social engineering and spear phishing, a tactic that attempts to trick victims into disclosing sensitive information. The news outlets that received the stolen documents didn’t report on them, but this week, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein published a dossier on vice presidential candidate JD Vance allegedly sent by the hackers. “These hack-and-leak efforts by Iran are a direct assault on the integrity of our democratic processes,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in the press release.
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