Campaign Infrastructure: Government Officials and Trump Campaign

campaign infrastructure: The Trump campaign's director of communications, Tim Murtaugh, said, We have no indication that any of our campaign infrastructure was targeted, according to The Japan Times. In a 30-day period between August and September, the group, dubbed Phosphorous by the company, made more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific customers and then attacked 241 of those accounts. Microsoft said earlier on Friday that it saw significant cyberactivity by the group which also targeted current and former U.S. government officials, journalists covering global politics and prominent Iranians living outside Iran, the company said in a blog post. ; Republican Trump's official campaign website is the only one of the remaining major contenders' sites that is linked to Microsoft's cloud email service, according to an inspection of publicly available mail exchanger records. Four accounts were compromised as a result of these attempts; these four accounts were not associated with the U.S. presidential campaign or current and former U.S. government officials, the blog post said. Microsoft's blog post did not identify the election campaign whose network was targeted by Phosphorous hackers. Microsoft has notified the customers related to these investigations and threats and has worked as requested with those whose accounts were compromised to secure them. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.