Roger Stone targeted in Trump hacking scheme as campaign blames Iran for document leak

Federal law enforcement agencies are investigating an apparent hacking incident involving Donald Trump’s campaign, which the former president is blaming on Iran, after a trove of documents were dumped to reporters over the weekend.

Hackers appear to have compromised an email account belonging to one of Trump’s long-time allies: Roger Stone.

The Republican operative’s email account was the victim of a phishing attempt, and his account was allegedly used to try to break into another that belonged to a senior campaign official.

Stone — who was convicted for lying to Congress in 2019 about efforts to dig up dirt about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign — was informed by the FBI as well as Microsoft that his email account was compromised by a “Foreign State Actor,” who sent messages containing a link that could give hackers access to that person’s computer.

But it remains unclear whether a recent leak of Trump campaign documents to reporters had anything to do with the allegedly Iran-backed attempt to compromise his campaign through Stone’s email account, and what, if anything, those apparent hacking attempts have yielded.

A spokesperson for the FBI confirmed to The Independent that the agency is investigating the matter but declined to provide any specific details about the investigation

“Mr. Stone was contacted about this matter by Microsoft and the FBI and continues to cooperate with both,” Grant Smith, an attorney for the Republican operative, told The Independent. “Mr. Stone will have no further comment at this time.”

Last week, Microsoft reported that an Iranian group, believed to be connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, sent a phishing email in June to “a high-ranking official on a