WASHINGTON: The US FBI mentioned on Monday (Aug 12) it was investigating after Donald Trump’s presidential marketing campaign mentioned its inside communications had been hacked and blamed the Iranian authorities.
The previous president mentioned on Saturday that Microsoft had knowledgeable his marketing campaign that Iran had hacked certainly one of its web sites. He mentioned Iran was “solely capable of get publicly obtainable data.”
The Iranian authorities has denied that it hacked the Trump marketing campaign.
Trump’s marketing campaign has pointed to a report on Friday by Microsoft researchers which indicated that Iranian government-linked hackers tried breaking into the account of a “high-ranking official” on a US presidential marketing campaign in June.
The report added that the hackers took over an account belonging to a former political adviser after which used it to focus on the official. It didn’t present additional particulars on the targets’ identities.
