00:00Iran is at the origin of the recent attempt to hack Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
00:05American intelligence officials have confirmed this.
00:08The FBI and other federal agencies have stated in a joint statement
00:13that Iran had decided to intervene in the US elections
00:16to sow discord and sow trust in democratic institutions.
00:21Trump's campaign accused Iran on August 10 of having hacked its internal communications.
00:27Iranian officials denied these accusations.
00:30Sources close to the investigation have told CBS News that they suspected
00:34that Iranian IT pirates had also targeted the campaign
00:38of the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris.
00:41The intelligence community is convinced that the Iranians tried to penetrate
00:46the networks of people linked to the presidential campaign of the two main political parties,
00:51said American officials in a statement.
00:55Such activities, including the theft and the publication of documents,
00:58aim to undermine the American electoral process.
01:01Harris's campaign also indicated last week that it had been targeted by a similar attack,
01:07although the attempts failed.
01:10American agencies have stated that these tactics are not new
01:14and have recalled that Russia and Iran had used these methods
01:18during the previous presidential elections.
01:21We still don't know what information could have been stolen during the hacking.
01:26Trump said that the pirates had only managed to obtain public information.
01:31According to Google, the campaign of the current president, Joe Biden,
01:34had also been targeted by Iranian pirates before they withdrew from the race.
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