Watergate 2.0? FBI Says Iranian Hackers Offered Trump Data To Joe Biden's Team

Iranian hackers offered stolen data from former President Donald Trump's campaign to Joe Biden's team before the Democratic candidate dropped out of the 2024 race, FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday. Officials revealed that 'malicious cyber actors' sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with the president's campaign. Neither Joe Biden nor Trump have reacted to the recent revelation. “Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a statement. “There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied.”Read More: Haitians In New York Protest Over Trump's Pet Eating Comments: 'We Don't Eat Pets, We Vote'However, there is no evidence that Biden's campaign responded to the hackers' emails. According to a US government statement, the hackers sent emails in late June and early July. The emails 'contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails'. This comes months after reports first surfaced about Iranian hackers interfering in the 2024 election. It included a hack-and-leak campaign that the FBI and other federal agencies linked last month to Tehran. The Justice Department has been preparing charges in that breach, The Associated Press has reported.Read More: US Government Heading For A Shutdown? Donald Trump's Key Condition RevealedThe Trump campaign disclosed in August that it had been hacked and said Iranian actors had stolen and distributed sensitive internal documents. Politico reported that it began receiving emails on July 22 from an anonymous account. One document reportedly included a research dossier on the Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance. The document was dated February 23, almost five months before Trump selected the Ohio Senator as his running mate. (With AP inputs)