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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.

  • 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.