Former White House communications director Hope Hicks revealed to the House Intelligence Committee an email account belonging to her was hacked, according to a report.
Hicks, who testified before the committee last week, told lawmakers she couldn’t access two of her email accounts, sources told NBC News. Hicks used one of the accounts when she worked on the Trump campaign, and the other was a personal account.
She then told members of the House Intelligence Committee that one of those accounts had been hacked, though it’s unknown which one was compromised.
Sources told the network it’s normal for lawmakers to question witnesses about phone numbers or email accounts. However, it’s rare for a witness to divulge they can’t access previously used accounts.
Hicks, who started working for President Trump during the campaign, voluntarily testified before the House Intelligence Committee.
She resigned from her position as White House communications director the day after her testimony, a move that the White House said was not tied to her eight-hour appearance before the committee.
Hicks was one of nine Trump associates named in a subpoena recently sent from special counsel Robert Mueller’s office to former Trump aide Sam Nunberg. Nunberg was asked to turn over documents and communications related to the associates.
Mueller has also been looking into the drafting of a statement, which Hicks assisted with, about a meeting Donald Trump Jr. attended at Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer.
The statement initially said the meeting was about a Russian adoption policy, but it was then revealed Trump Jr. attended the meeting after he was promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
