Justice Dept. unseals indictment charging Iranian cyber actors with hacking conspiracy targeting U.S. officials

The Justice Department is charging three Iranians with committing a hacking conspiracy that most recently sought to influence the U.S. presidential election through a “hack-and-leak operation” reportedly of the Trump campaign on behalf of the Iranian government.

“As alleged, in or around May, after several years of focusing on compromising the accounts of former U.S. government officials, the conspirators used some of the same hacking infrastructure from earlier in the conspiracy to begin targeting and successfully gaining unauthorized access to...