The newly unsealed charges connect Kazemi and Kashian to a voter intimidation campaign that Trump administration officials attributed to Iran in 2020. | David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
By ERIC GELLER
11/18/2021 02:05 PM EST
Updated: 11/18/2021 02:41 PM EST
Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against two Iranian hackers accused of attempting to sow chaos and fear during the 2020 presidential election.
Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian stole more than 100,000 voters’ private information from the election website of an unspecified U.S. state, sent threatening emails to voters and spread false claims about election security vulnerabilities, according to the indictment.
The two men, who worked for an Iranian technology company that has provided services to the regime, also hacked into a news organization as part of an apparent plan to further spread their false claims, the indictment charges. The FBI and the news organization — also unnamed in the indictment — were able to contain the attack and prevent the hackers from doing that, prosecutors said.
Kazemi and Kashian are not in U.S. custody.
False pride: The newly unsealed charges connect Kazemi and Kashian to a voter intimidation campaign that Trump administration officials attributed to Iran in the waning days of the 2020 campaign. The hackers masqueraded as members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys, sending emails that included the threat, "You will vote for Trump on Election...
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