Trump campaign was hacked, campaign says

[Ramsey Barner]

Source: Politico

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that some of its internal communications had been hacked.

The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaigns’ suggestion that it was targeted by Iran.

“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Cheung said. “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.”

A research dossier the campaign had apparently done on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, which was dated Feb. 23, was included in the documents. The documents are authentic, according to two people familiar with them and granted anonymity to describe internal communications. One of the people described the dossier as a preliminary version of Vance’s vetting file.

The research dossier was a 271-page document based on publicly available information about Vance’s past record and statements, with some — such as his past criticisms of Trump — identified in the document as “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.”

The scope of the information obtained by the hacker is unclear. But it represents a major security breach for Trump’s campaign.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503

[The Grand Illuminist]

1. If it did, then good.

War is hell.

[Bucky]

43. No, not good

File this in the same folder with the assassination attempt. Like Covid, not everything bad for Trump is good for the country.

Trump's team may've been slacky on security, but there's no reason to think this Russian-Iranian hack isn't hacking Harris's campaign too

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503

[The Grand Illuminist]

58. Then we lose.

We must fight their fight. There is no choice in the matter. Way too many people are fed up with MAGA.

[bullimiami]

2. Tell Hillary. She'll get right on it.

[Lovie777]

3. GQP lie so much while making up shit................................

I sincerely can't at this point in time believe them,

[Klarkashton]

4. Will they use this as an excuse to dump Vance?

[unblock]

5. Spear-fishing email to a high ranking official on the campaign?

My money is on Donnie himself.

Anyone can fall victim to a good spear-fishing attack, but Donnie's a good bet as most easily manipulated.

How embarrassing that would be!

[lastlib]

20. Except he doesn't use e-mail.......

eom

[2naSalit]

54. Either him or...

His brainless DIL, Lipps.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Wait ... Vance's vetting file is 271 pages?!

That seems like a lot. I don't think his book was even that long.

Besides, how many pages does it take to say weirdo couch-fucking troglodyte?

[LonePirate]

7. I am cautiously skeptical of this story.

I don't fully trust Politico ever since they adopted a recognizable right-wing bias after being purchased by that German company.

If a hacker is going to leak a document, why would they leak this one from over five months ago? They couldn't find something bigger or more damaging? Also, why would they leak it to Politico of all organizations given how they could easily sit quietly on the documents if they were truly harmful to the campaign.

I am looking at this story with one raised eyebrow as it seems just as likely as this was an intentional leak to start the ball rolling on dumping Vance from the ticket. Maybe my skepticism is unwarranted. We'll see.

[Ramsey Barner]

11. Your skepticism may be warranted!

Mark Jacob Tweet: "There’s no reason to believe the Trump campaign when it says its internal communications were hacked by “foreign sources.” Team Trump lies every day. You have to wonder whether a damaging leak has occurred and they want to discredit an upcoming news story."

Link to tweet

[orangecrush]

13. This is the most likely scenario.

[Stardust Mirror]

14. "they want to discredit an upcoming news story"

my first thought

my first thought was not "trump always lies" because that's just a basic assumption about the nature of the universe, like gravity or breathing, don't have to think about it.

[moonscape]

38. My 1st thought was it's all

a lie because no way was JD vetted.

[ificandream]

66. The Washington Post has this story, too. They were sent the same documents that Politico received.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/trump-hack-iran-vance-report/

By Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris
August 10, 2024 at 7:18 p.m. EDT

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said on Saturday that it has been the victim of a foreign hack, after the campaign received questions from news organizations about a lengthy vetting document on vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) sent to the outlets.

“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Steven Cheung, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement.

Cheung pointed to a report released Friday by Microsoft in which the company said it had discovered evidence that Iranian hackers had tried to break into the email account of a “high-ranking official” on a U.S. presidential campaign in June.

The company did not publicly identify the campaign or confirm whether it believed the hack had been successful. A person familiar with Microsoft’s work confirmed that the report’s reference was to the Trump campaign.

[rsdsharp]

8. "Wikileaks! Wikileaks! I love Wikileaks!"

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Suck it, you giant fucking pile of monkey spunk!!!

[getagrip_already]

9. Now they are outraged......

But the irony is nobody really gives a fuck. They dump so much shit publically, who needs emails?

[BamaRefugee]

10. They probably just paid trump the bribe he demanded and VOILA!

[orangecrush]

12. Uh huh

[Coexist]

15. Trump may have the tech bros, but the hackers appear to back Kamala

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hackers-rally-kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-def-con-las-vegas-rcna165459

who would win that war?

[Miles Archer]

16. This bodes SUPER WELL for Trump's plan to replace EVERY FEDERAL EMPLOYEE with Trump "loyalists."

It seems that he really does hire the BEST people. ONLY the BEST.

I spend zero seconds a day pondering "what might be best for Trump," but having said that, maybe what would be best for him would be to lose, and live out the rest of his worthless life at his country club. He gets the IMMEDIATE adoration fix he needs there. He stumbles into the dining room and the trained seals clap on cue. He doesn't have to do any work. He doesn't have to do ANYTHING except show up. I know he wants that for the presidency, and it IS how he conducted himself ("executive time," anyone?)

But I would like to think that the ship has sailed on that nonsense.

[SWBTATTReg]

17. Yeah, right. Problem is, that with tRUMP and loser vance, what possibly value if any data was captured, worth?

Like I said before, garbage in, garbage out.

Most people could look at 5 or so appearances, vance's (and tRUMP's) former appearances and/or speeches over prior years, and gain the same information.

[VeryProgressive]

18. If they can't protect...

If they can't protect themselves, why would we trust them to protect America. I mean, that's what they would be saying.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Isn't this just a re-make of the big 2016 heist of DNC documents, with a different cast?

[ET Awful]

21. Hmmm "These documents were obtained illegally FROM foreign sources hostile to the United States"

Notice the key word "from", not "by". I'm sure that was a typo right?

[ET Awful]

22. Also - as an aside, Microsoft reports on such activity are normally limited to

reporting that there was unusual login activity or "impossible travel" if an account logs in (for example) from both New York and Nigeria at the same time. They don't tell you WHY it was done or how the bad actor acquired the access. That typically requires forensic analysis.

[Clouds Passing]

23. October Surprise: Dump's emails. Priceless!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Hillary is smiling at this news

[Wonder Why]

25. We all know they are hackneyed. Oh, you said hacked! Yeah, so sad, Can't wait for the juicy story when it comes

out since he will never pay a dime for anything after the Stormy Daniels Criminal conviction disaster as if he would volunteer to ever pay his bills.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Shouldn't have opened that e-mail, Roger . . . . .

That being said, I can also imagine "dummy" campaign material being made available for theft.

[kimbutgar]

27. My bs detector goes off on this story.

He needs attention and sympathy now since Harris/ Walz is taking all the air out of him.

Maybe his campaign should have used the money he got from the suckers to pay for good cybersecurity to protect their internal campaign documents.

[EarlG]

28. Found this screenshot of the "POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES" section

[LunaSea]

32. That's nothing, check out page 187!

[Pinback]

41. Clever design

I’d finally have a place to store all my “universal” remotes!

[Raven123]

29. Well Assange is out free, so who knows

[liberal N proud]

30. Can we believe him?

NO!

I don’t believe anything he says.

[Mawspam2]

31. Still looking for the pee tape?

Gotta hack Vlad for that.

[C Moon]

33. You know the gop is going to hold hearings that somehow accuse Kamala Harris of this.

[twodogsbarking]

34. All together now "ahhh, too bad".

[ificandream]

35. Hey Iran, if you have any of the 30,000 emails that are missing ....

... a lot of us would love to see them. Add Hillary Clinton to that, too.

[FirstLight]

36. tiny-man-trying-to -get-attention-says WHAT?

This is so transparently vying for the spotlight it reeks of desperation.

[COL Mustard]

37. Russia, if you're listening....

Doesn't sound so funny anymore, eh Don-Old???

[Tarc]

39. Thoughts & prayers, Donnie.

[PedroXimenez]

40. the Iranians got the sofa pics

[mdbl]

42. All they had to do was use the bathroom at MaraLardo

Isn't that where our national secrets ended up?

[Bucky]

44. Actually, there's a good chance a Russian agent already accessed those.

Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/08/26/russian-speaking-immigrant-allegedly-entered-mar-a-lago-using-fake-identity-met-with-trump-report-says/

Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/27/fake-heiress-infiltrates-mar-a-lago-trump

MSNBC

[Orrex]

45. The hackers probably nicked him on his ear

But he'll recover completely and without a scar in about a week.

[Akakoji]

46. Let's see it! Remember when Trump said:

"I think I'd take it."

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/12/trump-fbi-foreign-information-1362788

[eppur_se_muova]

47. What could possibly be in there that's worse than what we know publicly ?

Trump says vile, racist, misogynist things ? He defrauded people ? He cheats everyone he does business with ? He lied on his tax filings ? He lied to lenders ? He lies a lot, about absolute everything ? He cheated on his wives ? He committed rape ? He sexually assaulted dozens of women ? He was a favorite of Epstein's "Lolita Express" ? He's chummy with dictators around the world ? He cheats in elections ? He started a deadly riot ? He wants to destroy the Constitution ? WHAT ?

[rpannier]

48. Wait. That's impossible! Maybe Unpossible (ask Ralph Wiggum)

In 2016, il douche said he knew so much about hacking and such that he told the Republican Party they needed to upgrade their servers because they were faulty
How did they hack his sight?!
Mr. 'I Am An Expert on All Things Tech' would know about such trivialities -- unless... he was lying them

[Bengus81]

49. Well...the "I almost went down in a helicopter" with Willie Brown went NOWHERE........

Just like the em..."assassination" attempt went nowhere. More of the same BS but the usual media outlets will eat it up for awhile.

[Botany]

50. Does not pass my smell test ... cyber security would have caught the hacking and why would Iran send the

… information to Politico.

Trump and company are desperate.

[Think. Again.]

51. Sure you were hacked donold, this isn't some weird ploy of yours at all. (wink, wink!)

[Midnight Writer]

52. Politico: "We started receiving documents from someone called John Barron..."

[bucolic_frolic]

53. To root out leakers, you have to let them leak.

and you generate sympathy and patriotism in the process

[GreenWave]

55. The old Karl Rove sympathy trick? Hack yourself, blame others?

[Simeon Salus]

56. I guess Trump needs somebody ELSE to attack him to improve his polling

Can we get some MMA for the debate? I'd love to see Donny in tights...

[PortTack]

57. Maga donors better be canceling their on file credit cards!

[Bengus81]

59. What was the website password....Trump 2024?

[dobleremolque]

60. Hackers don't use AOL. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

61. They were trying to deposit $1,000, 000 in bitcoin to your account Donny

[Raven123]

62. Was the FBI notified of this breach?

I look forward to an investigation and a report on what actually happened

[Turbineguy]

63. They may be foreign, but they are not exactly hostile.

[DFW]

64. Does this Republican spokesman, Cheung, even still have a job after what he did?

"intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process” --Steven Cheung

Cheung committed the unforgivable sin of using the word "democratic" with the forbidden two letters "ic" correctly at the end of the word. Probably the only reason he hasn't fallen out of a tenth story window is that he capitalized it where it was grammatically incorrect to do so.

[DENVERPOPS]

65. I smell a

black flag operation.............opens the door for the Republicans and Trump to proclaim the Dems are using a foreign power, and U.S. Enemy, to do their dirty work........

Once again, 180 degrees from the truth, which is Russia, NKorea, China, and Iran are doing to help the Repubs win, and help them destroy our economy and Democracy.......

[Pinback]

68. Agreed.

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Iran and Russia collaborating on something like this is not much of a stretch. I’ll be interested to see what results and what investigative journalists and cybersecurity professionals are able to determine.

[DENVERPOPS]

71. Republicans have been doing this for years

Republicans, before they do something, or before they are discovered for doing something, accuse Dems of doing it first. The Dems, like clockwork, immediately start defending themselves.............

Reminds me of when we were kids.......a guy cuts a fart, then says okay who cut the cheese. The other guys are so busy claiming they didn't do it, they ignore who really cut the fart.....

[twodogsbarking]

67. I guess DJT123 wasn't a strong password.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

69. Karma

Link to tweet

[BrianTheEVGuy]

70. How interesting

I’m old enough to remember when the same candidate back in 2016 urged a foreign power to hack into the accounts of their opposition and leak the info. When it happened, that campaign celebrated the foreign power’s intervention.

Seems their tune changed when a hostile foreign power hacked THEM instead. 🤔