Trump campaign emails hacked, internal documents leaked
The Trump campaign's emails were hacked, leaking internal communications and documents related to vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The campaign disclosed the breach on August 10, 2024, and blamed Iran, and US intelligence later confirmed Iran's hacking. The FBI launched an investigation, and US authorities charged three Iranians in September.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Trump campaign
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Internal emails and communications and documents related to JD Vance leaked
- Cause / method
- Iran's hacking of campaign emails
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- The Trump campaign disclosed that its emails had been hacked and internal documents leaked, and blamed Iran.
- The FBI said it was investigating the hack of the Trump campaign and attempted hacks of the Biden-Harris campaign.
- Google said it had observed Iranian attempts to hack the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns.
- US intelligence confirmed Iran's hacking of the Trump campaign.
- X blocked links to hacked documents related to JD Vance.
- US authorities unveiled charges against three Iranians involved in the Trump campaign hack and leak.
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