Iranian hackers sent Biden campaign stolen Trump materials in unsolicited emails, FBI says

This summer, Iranian hackers sent materials stolen from the Trump campaign to people associated with the Biden campaign as well as media outlets, according to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

“Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” according to a joint statement from the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), obtained by The Hill.

“There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied,” the agencies added.

“We have cooperated with the appropriate law enforcement authorities since we were made aware that individuals associated with the then-Biden campaign were among the intended victims of this foreign influence operation,” Harris campaign spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein said in a statement to The Washington Post. “We’re not aware of any material being sent directly to the campaign; a few individuals were targeted on their personal emails with what looked like a spam or phishing attempt. We condemn in the strongest terms any effort by foreign actors to interfere in U.S. elections including this unwelcome and unacceptable malicious activity.”

The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.

At a rally in Long Island, New York, on Wednesday, Trump accused Joe Biden of “working with Iran.”

“They gave them all of their materials because Biden is working with Iran, and Iran doesn’t exactly like me,” Trump said.

The Trump campaign condemned the hack.

“This is further