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Microsoft has stated that the Iranian state-backed cyber actor Neptunium is responsible for hacking Charlie Hebdo a few weeks ago.  The group is known for attempting to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The hacking campaign is believed to have been launched after the French magazine had made a caricature of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The cyber actor claims that it has managed to steal the private information of over 200,000 Charlie Hebdo customers, including names, emails, addresses, telephone numbers, etc. Microsoft was able to track patterns in this hacking campaign that were similar to other ones that were credited to Iranian threat actors. One of them was the creation of fake Twitter accounts impersonating tech executives and journalists that made fun of Charlie Hebdo. Neptunium is also tracked as Holy Souls. Similar campaigns where Iranian threat actors hack and then leak customer data have been tracked fairly recently by U.S. authorities.