The Trump campaign blamed Iran for the hack and leak operation on Saturday, after a 271-page dossier on J.D. Vance’s “vulnerability” was sent to at least two news organizations.

An internal campaign investigation report on Vance was sent to Politico and The Washington Post From an AOL.com email address, with a document on Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who was not selected as Donald Trump’s running mate.

Hours after Politico revealed it had received the material, the Trump campaign blamed Iran for the breach, saying it had been hacked.

“The Iranians know that President Trump will end their reign of terror just as he did in his first four years in the White House. Any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications He is doing the bidding of America’s enemies and doing exactly what they want,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said. told NBC News.

He added: “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘senior official’ during the June 2024 US presidential campaign, President Trump’s vice-choice. According to the nearest presidential candidate.”

The Biden administration has not commented on the alleged hack.

gave Cheung cited the Microsoft report. “Another Iranian group, linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” alleged that “a phishing email was sent to a high-ranking official during the presidential campaign in June from a compromised email account of a former senior adviser.” “

“The email contained a link that would direct traffic through a domain controlled by the group before routing to the provided link’s website… Within days of this activity, the same group logged into the account of a former presidential candidate. failed to do so,” the report added.

Politico reported that on July 22, it began receiving emails from an AOL account identified only by the moniker “Robert.” The emails contained proprietary information and internal documents of the Trump campaign.

One email contained a 271-page report on Venus titled “Potential Threats.” Robert told Politico that he had “a number of documents. [Trump’s] Legal and court documents for internal campaign debates,” and when pressed about how he got them, Robert replied, “I suggest you’re not curious about where I got them. What did Any answer to this question will compromise me and legally prevent you from publishing them.”

This is by no means a first for Trump. In 2020, a Hacker hack His X account guesses his password, “maga2020!”

Trump is also reportedly the target of an Iranian assassination plot that resulted in the indictment of Asif Merchant, a Pakistani man with ties to the Islamic Republic. DOJ on Wednesday.