Iran Threatens to Release 100GB of Trump Aides' Emails: What to Know
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An Iran-linked hacking group has threatened to release a batch of emails it said it has stolen from President Donald Trump's longtime aides, including adviser Roger Stone and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Reuters reported Monday that a cyberattack group that hacked the president's campaign last year claimed it had roughly 100 gigabytes of emails it could leak.
The hackers, operating under the pseudonym Robert, did not provide information about the content of the emails or when they plan to release them, according to the news agency. The group previously released some emails in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election last year.
A "hostile foreign adversary is threatening to illegally exploit purportedly stolen and unverified material in an effort to distract, discredit, and divide," the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said late on Monday.
This is a developing news story and will be updated.
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