{"id":30757,"date":"2024-08-11T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30757"},"modified":"2024-08-11T05:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T10:17:02","slug":"trump-campaign-claims-it-was-hacked-by-foreign-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30757","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign claims it was hacked by &#8216;foreign sources&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign is claiming it was hacked by &#8220;foreign sources&#8221; with the intent to interfere in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Trump campaign statement cited a report published by Microsoft on Friday, which said, &#8220;In June 2024, Mint Sandstorm\u2014a group run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit\u2014sent a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor. The phishing email contained a fake forward with a hyperlink that directs traffic through an actor-controlled domain before redirecting to the listed domain.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Microsoft does not identify the presidential campaign in its report. Microsoft has also not responded to ABC&#8217;s request for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Outside of the Trump campaign statement, ABC News has not confirmed the campaign was hacked by foreign sources with the intent to interfere in the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/live-updates\/election-kamala-harris-donald-trump-vice-president\/?id=112568134\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign is claiming it was hacked by &#8220;foreign sources&#8221; with the intent to interfere in the upcoming election. The Trump campaign statement cited a report published by Microsoft on Friday, which said, &#8220;In June 2024, Mint Sandstorm\u2014a group run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit\u2014sent a spear-phishing email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1230],"class_list":["post-30757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30759,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757\/revisions\/30759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}