The message from DHS came on Monday, per a Wall Street Journal report, although the agency did not say when the investigation would begin.

“The Cybersecurity Review Board will initiate a review of this incident at the appropriate time,” a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said.

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The news comes after the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed on Friday that Chinese hackers breached both presidential campaigns in a “malicious” act.

The scope of the Chinese hacking campaign, dubbed “Typhoon Salt,” has widened as investigations have unraveled in recent weeks. About 40 people are believed to have been targeted by Monday, according to the report Political.

In addition to the Trump and Harris campaigns, Salt Typhoon targeted the staff of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other members of the Biden administration. It compromised several telecommunications companies, including Verizon Communications, AT&T, and Lumen.

Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) faced data breaches while using Verizon phone systems.

The former president’s campaign has COMPARATIVE Chinese hacking of Iran’s cyber attack against Trump earlier this year. Near the beginning of August, Iranian hackers distributed documents gleaned from a Trump campaign data breach to major media outlets, though they he refused to release the 271-page dossier on Vance.

While it remains unclear what information the Chinese hackers gathered from the cyberattack, Trump campaign staffers said both China and Iran’s hacks amounted to “election interference.” Meanwhile, senior GOP officials have accused federal investigators of scuttling their probe into the Iran election interference plot.

Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, suggested on Sunday that “anti-Trump political bias has corrupted the FBI’s decision-making in the Biden administration” when it came to the agency’s investigation into the scope of the Iranian cyber attack.

“Today, on the eve of the presidential election, the FBI is doubling down on its politicization and corruption,” Stefanik wrote Sunday in an op-ed for Wall Street Journal before claiming that the agency is “deliberately concealing” information about Iranian influence in the 2024 presidential election.

When asked for comment about whether he was concerned that DHS might be operating with a similar alleged political bias in its latest investigation into China’s cyberattack, the Trump campaign continued to raise concerns that the Biden administration is enabling hapless foreign actors to attack the former president.

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“This is the continuation of election interference by Kamala Harris and Democrats who will stop at nothing, including encouraging China and Iran to attack critical American infrastructure, to prevent President Trump from returning to the White House. Their dangerous and violent rhetoric has given permission to those who want to hurt President Trump,” said Steven Cheung, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. Washington Examiner.

“They have now sat by and allowed major foreign adversaries to attack us to illegally aid Kamala because they know she represents a weak American who will always bow. Whereas President Trump will actually stand up against our enemies and defend the United States from any aggression,” Cheung continued.