A group of Iranian hackers claims they have stolen a huge amount of personal emails from President Donald Trump and his inner circle.
According to a report from Reuters, roughly 100 gigabytes of emails from the accounts of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, Trump adviser Roger Stone, and Trump antagonist Stormy Daniels are in thei hackers possession.
The news from the hacking group, which goes by the name Robert, comes after a prior batch of Trump’s personal emails were distributed to the media ahead of the 2024 U.S. election. The group raised the possibility of selling the material but otherwise did not provide details of their plans.
The hackers did not describe the content of the emails.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi described the intrusion as “an unconscionable cyber-attack.”
The White House and the FBI responded with a statement from FBI Director Kash Patel.
“Anyone associated with any kind of breach of national security will be fully investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Patel said.
“This so-called cyber ‘attack’ is nothing more than digital propaganda, and the targets are no coincidence. This is a calculated smear campaign meant to damage President Trump and discredit honorable public servants who serve our country with distinction,” cyberdefense agency CISA said in a post on X.
The hackers’ initial move began in the final months of the 2024 presidential campaign, when they claimed to have breached the email accounts of several Trump allies, including Wiles.
The hacker group then distributed emails to leftwing journalists.
According to Reuters, who previously authenticated some of the leaked material, they included an email that appeared to document a financial arrangement between Trump and lawyers representing former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – now Trump’s health secretary.
Other material included Trump campaign communication about Republican office-seekers and discussion of settlement negotiations with Daniels.
Last September, the Justice Department released an indictment alleging that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards ran the Robert hacking operation.
After Trump’s election in 2024, Robert told Reuters that no more leaks were planned. As recently as May, the hackers told Reuters they were retired.
But the group appears to have resumed communication after this month’s 12-day air war between Israel and Iran, which was capped by U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites.
In messages this week, Robert said they were organizing a sale of stolen emails and wanted Reuters to “broadcast this matter.”
According to a previous reports, American Enterprise Institute scholar Frederick Kagan, who has written about Iranian cyber-espionage, said Tehran suffered serious damage in the conflict and its spies were likely trying to retaliate in ways that did not draw more direct U.S. or Israeli action.
“A default explanation is that everyone’s been ordered to use all the asymmetric stuff that they can that’s not likely to trigger a resumption of major Israeli/U.S. military activity,” Kagan said.
“Leaking a bunch more emails is not likely to do that.”
In the aftermath of the U.S. offensive against Iran’s nuclear facilities, U.S. cyber officials warned this week that American companies and critical infrastructure operators might still be part of Iran’s target.
This is not the first time Trump’s White House staff have been victims of a coordinated, digital attack.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, in late May the FBI was investigating an effort by an unknown individual to impersonate White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Per the report, the imposter has reportedly sent off text messages and placed phone calls to Republican lawmakers, governors and business executives in recent weeks pretending to be Wiles.