Some of Donald Trump’s internal communications suffered hacking, leading the company to place the blame on the Iranian government, citing past hostilities between Trump and Iran without providing direct evidence, Reuters said.
Late Saturday night, Trump posted on his Truth Social app that Microsoft reported that one of its websites had come under hacking by Iran. Trump also said he viewed Iran as a defendant, adding that only the country could have obtained only publicly available information, but he did not go into the details of the hack.
Iranian hackers attempted to hack into a senior official’s account during the US presidential campaign in June, Microsoft said in the report. The report underlined the hackers hijacked the account belonging to a former political adviser and then used it to target the official, but there was no additional information about the identity of the targets. The Microsoft spokesperson, in turn, declined to name the targeted officials or provide additional information after the report was published.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York responded in the e-mail as follows: “The Iranian government neither possesses nor harbors any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election. We do not accord any credence to such reports.” Apart from that, the mission further added the country’s cyber capabilities are defensive and commensurate with the threats it faces and that it has no plans to launch cyber attacks.
The Iranian accusations from Donald Trump may stem from the fact that he had strained relations with Iran during his presidency since the United States killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani in 2020 and withdrew from the multilateral nuclear agreement with Iran.
