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Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/18/iranian-hackers-charged-voter-intimidation-campaign-522972
Iranian Hackers Charged with Meddling in U.S. Presidential Election
(Politico) Eric Geller - U.S. federal prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against two Iranian hackers accused of attempting to sow chaos and fear during the 2020 presidential election. Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian, who worked for an Iranian technology company that has provided services to the regime, stole private information on more than 100,000 voters, sent threatening emails to voters, and spread false claims about election security vulnerabilities, according to the indictment. The two are not in U.S. custody. Earlier this year, the U.S. intelligence community said Iran had waged a "covert influence campaign intended to undercut" then-President Donald Trump's campaign. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei authorized the campaign, which included both "messaging and cyber operations," the intelligence community said. The two tried to hack into "11 state voter websites" in September and October 2020 and successfully breached "a misconfigured computer system" in one state, prosecutors said.