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US: FBI investigates Iran hacking claims by Trump campaign
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced a probe into claims by the presidential campaign of Donald Trump that its internal communications were hacked by Iran.
The FBI released a brief statement reading: “We can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter.”
Tehran has denied hacking the campaign of the former president.
What do we know about the hacking incident?
Trump had said on Saturday that Microsoft had informed his campaign that Iran had hacked one of its websites, adding the hackers were only “able to get publicly available information.”
The campaign gave no specific evidence of Tehran’s involvement.
This came after a Microsoft report on Friday which detailed attempts to interfere in the US 2024 presidential campaign by foreign agents.
It particularly cited an Iranian military intelligence unit in June sending “a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor” which it had taken over.