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Following reports late last week, the Trump campaign claims it was hacked by an Iranian group. Is this the first of many cyberattacks?

From NBC News. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign on Saturday said that it had been hacked by an Iranian group in June, “which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a Vice Presidential nominee,” Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, told NBC News.

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The hack was first reported by Politico, and NBC News has not independently verified that the hack took place or where it originated. Politico said it began receiving emails from an anonymous account sharing internal documents from the Trump campaign in July. …

Cheung pointed to a Microsoft report released Friday that said an “Iranian group, this one connected with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.”

The FBI said it was “aware of the media reporting” but declined to comment further.

A spokesperson for the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations said, “We do not accord any credence to such reports. The Iranian Government neither possesses nor harbors any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election.” …

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(Excerpt from NBC News. Photo Credit: english.khamenei.ir – http://english.khamenei.ir/photo/3607/Senior-Commanders-of-Armed-Forces-Norouz-meeting-with-the-Leader, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48128491)