The hackers start to get attention: the FBI reports on a sophisticated cyberattack against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for 2024. Iran’s hackers were credited by the FBI with having pulled off an attack and swiped sensitive data from the Trump campaign. These hackers reportedly attempted to share this information with people connected to President Joe Biden’s campaign.
But it should be underlined that, as of this moment, no credible evidence points to the fact that Biden or Kamala Harris campaigns used or solicited the stolen information. Each of the campaigns flatly denied any notion of involvement or knowledge concerning the hack. They pressed for proper investigations into the matter and added that action must be taken against such serious allegations.
The hacking incident has, therefore, been interpreted to be part of a broader Iranian effort at interfering with the process of electing a president in the U.S. As analysts noted, this activity might well be driven resolutely by certain long-standing grievances which Tehran has against Trump’s policies during his presidency, including withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the assassination of an important Iranian military general that seriously spoiled relations between the two states.
US intelligence agencies do their best in investigations and develop the complete scope of this attack and implications. They are engaged in the process of verification and feasibility check of these incidents affecting the course of the election. Iranian officials have strongly denied involvement, asking in turn that the US needs to provide hard evidence to prove such allegations.
With credible, yet unsubstantiated, allegations of collusion between the Biden campaign and the Iranians, this is where an investigation is most definitely needed. Let investigations take their full course without speculations by the public or the media. It is in misunderstanding or at premature judgements that distortions can be made about this situation.
