Iran Behind Hacks Into Trump Campaign, US Intelligence Concludes

The FBI and U.S. intelligence concluded in a Monday statement that Iran recently hacked former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

The Trump campaign declared in early August that it had been hacked by Iran and that confidential documents had been leaked to the press. The FBI opened an investigation into the matter and said Monday that Iran was responsible for the attack, though it did not specify how it came to that conclusion or the nature of the information had been compromised.

“We have observed increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle, specifically involving influence operations targeting the American public and cyber operations targeting Presidential campaigns,” a joint statement from the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reads. “This includes the recently reported activities to compromise former President Trump’s campaign, which the attributes to Iran.”

Further, U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran has targeted “the Presidential campaigns of both political parties,” according to the statement.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations quickly denied the allegations, calling them “unsubstantiated and devoid of any standing” and challenging the U.S. to provide evidence, according to The Associated Press.

The Trump campaign claimed on Aug. 10 that an Iranian operative had hacked their platform. Confidential information from the campaign was leaked to a variety of media outlets, including Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Those outlets have not shared what information was leaked with them, according to the AP.