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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

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Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2024-08-14

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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The article describes an alleged hack-and-leak operation targeting the Trump campaign in which stolen documents were shared with media by a persona called "Robert"; Microsoft and Google have publicly linked Iran-backed actors who used spear-phishing (including compromise of Roger Stone's email) to attempts against campaign-related accounts, the FBI is investigating, and the piece draws parallels to the 2016 Guccifer 2.0 operation.

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