The US FBI said on Monday it was investigating Donald Trump’s presidential campaign over allegations that its internal communications were hacked and the campaign blamed the Iranian government.
The former president said on Saturday that Microsoft (MSFT.O) had informed his campaign that Iran had hacked one of its websites. Trump said Iran “only got hold of publicly available information.”
The FBI is also investigating alleged hacking targeting advisers to the campaigns of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Washington Post reported Monday.
The FBI launched the investigation in June, when Biden was still running for president, suspecting that Iran was behind efforts to steal data from two US presidential campaigns, the paper said, citing sources.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee last month after Biden withdrew his bid.
The Iranian government has denied that it hacked the Trump campaign.
Trump’s campaign on Friday pointed to a report by Microsoft researchers indicating that hackers linked to the Iranian government tried to break into the account of a “high-ranking official” of the US presidential campaign in June.
The report said the hackers compromised the account of a former political adviser and then used it to target the official. It did not provide further details about the identity of the target.
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