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Iran-linked ​hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI ‌Director Kash Patel’s personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet.

On their website, the hacker ​group Handala Hack Team said Patel “will now find ​his name among the list of successfully hacked ⁠victims.” A Justice Department official confirmed that Patel’s email had ​been breached and said the material published online appeared authentic.

  • PitShoster@piefed.socialEnglish
    105·
    11 hours ago

    I’m sure there will be outrage over his email server like there was ten years ago. Any minute now.

    • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
      37·
      11 hours ago

      Apparently it was just Gmail:

      Reuters was ​not able to ⁠independently authenticate the Patel emails, but the personal Gmail address that Handala claims to have broken into ​matches the address linked to Patel in previous ​data breaches ⁠preserved by the dark web intelligence firm District 4 Labs. Alphabet-owned Google, which runs Gmail, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

      • dalekcaan@feddit.nl
        40·
        10 hours ago

        Matches the address linked to Patel on previous data breaches

        So the director of the FBI is regularly subject to data breaches? Am I reading that correctly?

        • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
          111·
          10 hours ago

          I think it’s less that he is personally being hacked, but rather he’s using common public services which do.