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Republican candidate Donald Trump said Saturday that Microsoft informed him (NASDAQ: MSFT) that one of his campaign websites was hacked by the Iranian government, but added that the hackers were only able to obtain “publicly available information.”
“However, they “I should not do anything of this nature,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “It is never a good thing to do!”
The politician had said before reported who had begun receiving emails in July from an anonymous source containing internal documents from the Trump operation, including a report on vice presidential nominee JD Vance's “potential vulnerabilities.”
“These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the intent to interfere in the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to Bloomberg.
In response to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha, Microsoft (MSFT) noted its Blog entry and report detailing Iran's efforts to attack the US election.
The Microsoft (MSFT) report claims that in June 2024, a group led by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sent a phishing email to a senior presidential campaign official from a compromised email account of a former senior adviser. The report does not mention the name of the campaign.
The United States had assassinated Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, in January 2020, under the orders of then-President Donald Trump.
