Hackers Claim to Have a Mountain of Trump Emails

The irony of the unsecured email address.

An Iranian-linked hacking group has threatened to sell stolen emails from Donald Trump’s inner circle, which it claims to have acquired during the 2024 election campaign.

The hackers, who use the online pseudonym “Robert,” say they had around 100 gigabytes of emails taken from the accounts of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, longtime Trump ally and political consultant Roger Stone, and Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom the president paid to keep quiet about an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 election. What a lineup of Donald Trump's worst moments!

Robert said they’re considering selling the emails, but did not disclose what information they contain or who the potential buyers might be.

FBI Director Kash Patel responded to the claims, saying: “The FBI takes all threats against the president, his staff, and our cybersecurity with the utmost seriousness. Safeguarding our administration officials’ ability to securely communicate to accomplish the president’s mission is a top priority. Anyone associated with any kind of breach of national security will be fully investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Marci McCarthy, director of public affairs at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said a “hostile” foreign adversary was threatening to “illegally exploit purportedly stolen and unverified material in an effort to distract, discredit, and divide.”

These included details of a financial arrangement between Trump and attorneys representing former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—now Trump’s health secretary—as well as settlement negotiations between Trump and Daniels.

The Iranian hackers were also believed to be behind the obtaining of Trump's campaign team's vetting process for Vice President JD Vance.

The Justice Department alleged in a September 2024 indictment that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind the Robert hacking group. The hackers declined to address these claims.

Trump’s campaign team accused Iran of hacking their emails and distributing a trove of sensitive information in August 2024. At least three news organizations—Politico, The New York Times, and The Washington Post—received the documents but did not report on their contents. Be a lot cooler if they did.