https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Iran-linked hackers on Friday claimed they had accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email 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." The hackers published a series of personal photographs of Patel sniffing and smoking cigars, riding in an antique convertible, and making a face while taking a picture of himself in the mirror with a large bottle of rum.A Justice Department official confirmed that Patel's email had been breached and said the material published online appeared authentic. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The hackers did not immediately respond to messages.Handala, which calls itself a group of pro-Palestinian vigilante hackers, is considered by Western researchers to be one of several personas used by Iranian government cyberintelligence units. Handala recently claimed the hack of Michigan-based medical devices and services provider Stryker (SYK.N) on March 11, claiming to have deleted a massive trove of company data.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.A sample of the material uploaded by the hackers and reviewed by Reuters appears to show a mix of personal and work correspondence dating between 2010 and 2019.
>>1500874Any dick pics?
If Iran was able to do this, I imagine China and Russia have taken literally everything they could ever want.
THEY BROKE INTO HIS PERSONAL GMAIL ACCOUNT, NOT HIS FBI PROVIDED ACCOUNT. THIS IS THE BEST "WIN" IRAN CAN PUT ON THE BOARD? PHISHING A PERSONAL EMAIL? WOW THEY ARE REALLY DESPERATE. USA DOESNT BOTHER CHECKING THE EMAIL WE JUST DELETE THE USER.
>>1500894ESL detected.
>>1500874Heres the rest of the article not in the OP:>Reuters was not able to independently authenticate the Patel messages, 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.>'MAKE THEM FEEL VULNERABLE'>Iran-linked hackers - who initially kept a low profile after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes against the Islamic Republic last month - have increasingly boasted of their cyber operations as the conflict drags on.>In addition to the hack against Stryker, Handala on Thursday claimed to have published the personal data of dozens of defense company Lockheed Martin employees stationed in the Middle East. In a statement, Lockheed Martin said it was aware of the reports and had policies and procedures in place "to mitigate cyber threats to our business.">Gil Messing, chief of staff at Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point, said the hack-and-leak operation against Patel was part of Iran's strategy to embarrass U.S. officials and "make them feel vulnerable.">The Iranians, he said, are "firing whatever they have.">It is not unusual for foreign hackers to target senior officials' personal emails, and breaches and leaks both happen periodically. Hackers famously broke into Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's personal Gmail account ahead of the 2016 election and published much of the data to the WikiLeaks site. In 2015, teenage hackers broke into then-CIA director John Brennan's personal AOL account and leaked data about U.S. intelligence officials.
>>1500901>Relatively unsophisticated breaches of this nature are in line with a U.S. intelligence assessment reviewed by Reuters on March 2. The assessment said Iran and its proxies could respond to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with low-level hacks against U.S. digital networks.>Iran-linked hackers may have other emails in reserve.>Last year, another group operating under the pseudonym "Robert" told Reuters it was considering disclosing 100 gigabytes of data stolen from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other figures close to U.S. President Donald Trump.Reuters has not been able to verify the claim and the group has not responded to messages in several months.
>>1500876https://web.archive.org/web/20260327153947/https://handala-team.to/kash-patel-current-director-of-the-fbi-hacked/Lmao who wants to sign him up for porn?
>>1500901>>1500902that wasn't in the article when I posted it, they must've updated it afterwards
>>1500903i downloaded it but afraid to unzip it.
>>1500890Iranians are quite clever in a sneaky way, they’re probably better at this kind of stuff and making interesting lego propaganda than Russians or Chinese. Iranians are famous for poetry
>>1500874Notice how they didn't give it to the US press since it's controlled by conservatives and they'd just bury it, like the hacked documents about 2024.
>>1500876>Any dick pics?Yes, all of Krazer eyed killer Kash's photos.
>>1500894You're probably the first person in history to defend Patel and you are not even a bot.
>>1500894Knowing this admin he probably sent a decent amount of classified info using his personal account. These are the same guys who got caught breaking opsec TWICE using a messaging app you can download off the app store right now.
>>1500874Fake news. A personal email is not the same thing as Patel's official government email address. Its already confirmed that nothing important was in the emails.
>>1500894Doesn’t the Trump admin regularly use gmail and other personal email accounts?
>>1500958Do you know how to read?
But her emails
>>1500989Interesting. So you're a leftist who mocked the importance of Hillary's email, but now you're pretending to care about Patel's emails, purely because he's on the "other side"?
>>1500991wow you can tell so much from a three word anonymous post, amazing
>>1500991Hillary's emails weren't hacked by Iran.
>>1501022and hillary didn't get american soldiers killed in iran either
>>1500991And you're a right wing retard making a whataboutism. You think the old white lady did something wrong but are arguing the shitting chihuahua should do 'the same thing' with no repercussions; because you have no real morals, just manufactured outrage.That's not really interesting, it's stale and played out.
>>1501022Yeah they were hacked by china lmao
>>1501023That was Benghazi
>>1501235Bush cut the budget
>>1500970>Doesn’t the Trump admin regularly use gmail and other personal email accounts?Yes.They use fucking signal, to keep conversations about "governing the United States" out of the FBI counter-intelligence (supposed to be protecting them from spies) monitoring systems.
>>1501333checked.Clinton got those blowjobs because he balanced the budget, repealed Glass-Steagall, and got 3-strikes passed.
