WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian hackers tried to get President Joe Biden’s campaign interested in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, unsolicited by people connected to the Democratic president in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election. sent the emails, the FBI and other federal agencies said. Wednesday.

There is no evidence that any of the recipients responded, officials said, preventing hacked information from becoming public in the final months of a closely contested election.

The hackers sent emails in late June and early July to people who were associated with Biden before he left the campaign. According to a US government statement, the emails “contained as text an excerpt taken from former President Trump’s stolen, non-public campaign materials”.

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The announcement is the latest effort in what officials say is Iran’s brazen, ongoing work to interfere in the 2024 election, including a hack and leak campaign that the FBI and other federal agencies linked to Tehran last month. . The Associated Press reported that the Justice Department is preparing charges for the breach.

The FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have said the Trump campaign hack and attempted breach of the Biden-Harris campaign were part of an effort to undermine voter confidence in the election. Disagreement

The Trump campaign disclosed on August 10 that it had been hacked and said Iranian actors had stolen and distributed sensitive internal documents. At least three news outlets – Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post – were leaked classified material from within the Trump campaign. So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what it found.

Politico reported that it began receiving emails from an anonymous account on July 22. The source — an AOL email account identified only as “Robert” — passed along what appeared to be a research dossier the campaign apparently had on the Republican vice presidential candidate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. what was The document was dated February 23, nearly five months before Trump selected Vance as his running mate.

In a statement, Morgan Finkelstein, a spokeswoman for Kamala Harris’ campaign, said the campaign has cooperated with law enforcement since it became known that people associated with Biden’s team were among the recipients of the emails.

“We are not aware of any content being sent directly to the campaign. Finkelstein said a few people were targeted with their personal emails in what appeared to be spam or phishing attempts.