Wall Street Journal claims: Iranian hackers hack into US media giant ahead of 2020 elections.
The American newspaper claimed that in 2020, Iranian hackers hacked into the computer systems of a major American media company that publishes dozens of newspapers across the United States in order to spread false information about the US elections.
According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, the American “Wall Street Journal” newspaper, citing sources who were called by people familiar with the matter, claimed that Iranian hackers last year used the computer systems of “Lee Enterprises”, a large American media company that hacked dozens of newspapers. Spread across the United States as part of a wider effort to spread misinformation about the 2020 US presidential election.
On Thursday, the US Department of Justice claimed that hackers had hacked into the digital systems of an anonymous media company in the fall of 2020 and tested how to create false news content.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the sources identified the company on Friday as Lee Enterprises, a public limited company headquartered in Dunport, Iowa and one of the largest chain newspapers in the United States.
Prosecutors said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had warned an unidentified company of intrusion. According to them, one day after the US presidential election in November, hackers tried to return to the media company system but failed. The federal indictment in this case does not show that the hackers managed to spread fake information under the news brands of an anonymous media company.
