Tag: hack
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Chinese hack of telecommunications companies under investigation, NSA chief says
SEA ISLAND, Ga. — The director of the National Security Agency said Sunday a Chinese hack of three major telecommunications firms is under investigation, but it remains “premature” to discuss the case. Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh said his command would work closely with other government agencies and private companies “to really understand what has…
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Iran’s history of elaborate election interference efforts, before the Trump campaign hack
On Friday, U.S. authorities accused three Iranian men of stealing and leaking files from former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, the largest “hack and leak” election influence operation since Russia’s breach of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Democratic organizations in 2016. Iran’s influence efforts using hacked material from the Trump campaign follow what the United States…
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U.S. indicts three Iranians in Trump campaign hack
Three Iranian nationals have been indicted for hacking into the campaign of former President Donald Trump, stealing emails and documents, and then sharing them with the news media, according to U.S. officials and a federal indictment filed in Washington on Friday. The three Iranians, identified as members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, hired “malicious…