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Suspected Iranian hackers breached Roger Stone’s personal email as part of effort to target Trump campaign, sources say | CNN Politics

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Sources: Hackers used Roger Stone's email account to try to break into a senior Trump campaign official's account, sources say.

The hackers used the account to phish officials in the Trump campaign into opening a link that would give perpetrators access to that person’s computer, one source says.

The techniques used by the hackers to target the campaign match those associated with Iranian hackers, one of the sources says.

Donald Trump has blamed the apparent hack-and-leak of campaign documents on Iran .

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