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sources tell ABC news that us
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investigators believe Chinese hackers
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have launched a wide ranging cyber
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campaign targeting cellones of Democrats
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and Republican officials including
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former president Trump and his running
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mate JD Vance the Trump campaign is
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responding to the reported Cyber attack
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trying to blame vice president Harris
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and Democrats accusing them without
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evidence of emboldening China and Iran
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joining us now for more on this is ABC
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News chief justice correspondent Pierre
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Thomas Pier what are we learning about
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uh this alleged hacking
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campaign well what we we are being told
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by sources is that it was pretty
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comprehensive that the Chinese
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Affiliated hackers uh targeted a number
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of major service providers uh operating
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in the United States and basically they
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use that to then focus on high-profile
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customers and we're being told it was
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not only former president Trump and his
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running mate JD Vance but also other
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political leaders of Business Leaders
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and people in government and the concern
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now is as the government contacts these
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victims uh they're trying to figure out
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well what exactly were the Chinese
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officials able to do what were they able
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to see were they only able to see who
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those people were communicating with by
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their phone or other devices were they
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able to look at text messages were they
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able to look at emails and God forbid
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were they able to somehow get to the
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point where they could listen to
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conversations that is all being
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investigated the answers are still being
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pursued it's a massive investigation
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obviously uh of great concern to Federal
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officials and they've been warning for
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quite some time uh Alex that down the
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stretch of the campaign that you would
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see China Russia and Iran increase this
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kind of activity you recall just a few
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weeks ago uh that the government put out
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information that that Iran had hacked
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the Trump campaign gotten some uh
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campaign information and then SE sought
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to give that information to people
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affiliated with the then Biden campaign
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so uh stay tuned more coming yeah more
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coming indeed Pierre thank you for that
