U.S. to file charges in Trump campaign hacking case, officials say
The Justice Department plans to file criminal charges in the hacking of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, two law enforcement officials told NBC News.
The Justice Department plans to file criminal charges in the hacking of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, two law enforcement officials told NBC News.
The Trump campaign announced in August that it had been hacked. Later that month, federal officials said that Iran was behind the effort, which was part of an apparent hack-and-leak operation to spread files stolen from Trump’s campaign.
To date, the information obtained and disseminated to media organizations by the hackers has not spread widely. At least three American media outlets and one independent journalist have received what appear to be the hacked files from a person using the name “Robert” and emailed from an America Online (AOL) address, but they have not published those files.
A spokesperson for Iran’s Mission to the United Nations didn’t immediately respond to an email requesting comment, but previously denied that Iran was behind the hacking operation.
The Washington Post was first to report the pending charges. Details of the charges and who they will be filed against are not currently known.
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