The Department of Justice on Friday announced an indictment for three #Iranian nationals for❌ hacking Donald Trump’s campaign.
The DOJ accused three Iranians -- members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- of hacking into Trump’s campaign.
Masoud Jalili, Yaser Balaghi, and Seyyed Ali Aghamiri were charged with
💥 conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer and other counts relating to fraud.
The indictment alleges that the three individuals hacked information from Trump’s campaign before sharing it with various media outlets, 👉 which refused to publish it.
Attorney General #Merrick #Garland denounced efforts by foreign regimes to influence U.S. elections during a press conference on Friday.
“The message of the U.S. government is clear ❇️ the American people, not a foreign power, decide the outcome of our country’s elections,
♦️not Iran and its malicious cyber activities as laid bare in today’s indictment,
♦️not Russia and its efforts to spread disinformation and propaganda to secured its preferred outcome in the U.S. presidential election, as laid bare in the indictment and seizures announced earlier this month,” Garland said.
The indictment relates to an FBI investigation regarding an anonymous online account sharing stolen documents from the Trump campaign to reporters.
One document shared by the hackers was a dossier the Trump campaign wrote on JD #Vance while vetting him to be Trump’s running mate -- the dossier was made public Thursday by an independent journalist.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-bidens-doj-charges-iranian-operatives-for-hack-of-trump-campaign/
