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.
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PitShoster@piefed.social · 126 pts · 148d
I'm sure there will be outrage over his email server like there was ten years ago. Any minute now.
ryper@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 148d
Apparently it was just Gmail:
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 56 pts · 148d
So the director of the FBI is regularly subject to data breaches? Am I reading that correctly?
baronvonj@piefed.social · 11 pts · 148d
I think it's less that he is personally being hacked, but rather he's using common public services which do.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
It’s Gmail. If Gmail is the weak link then he didn’t get hacked, the entire world got hacked.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 1 pts · 147d
Yes in this case it was targeted at his account. I was referring to the "previous data breaches" in which "the address [was] linked to Patel." To me a data breach is when a company is targeted and the attackers gain access to a data set. Those data sets are often just lists of customer personal information. Like names, shipping addresses, phone numbers, emails, birthdays, and things like that. Then that leaked info can be used by future bad actors to target and individual.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 148d
It's barely a tick in the news media apparatus so far as far as I can see.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d
No indication (yet anyway) that government business was conducted on his gmail. Records also end at 2019.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 148d
That'll happen when your IT systems are no longer guarded by the woke femboys and furries.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 24 pts · 148d
dasrael@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 148d
BASED
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 148d
Anyone got a link to the leaks? Would love to know what he spends his time emailing about instead of doing his job
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 16 pts · 148d
He's a prolific poster on elevator shoe forums
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 148d
His ringtone is Aerosmith’s “Love in an Elevator”
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 148d
Early leaks supposedly
https://xcancel.com/disclosetv/status/2037533001312026827?s=20
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 148d
The comments on x have a disturbing amount of reality-defying insanity...
redditmademedoit@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 147d
A lot of Cuba related stuff
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 148d
Nothing it’s mostly pics of his kids from ten years ago. Some hotel reservations, him buying his house. Most interesting thing is a his cv and job offer to be a lawyer. Only a couple hundred emails max. Mostly old and boring.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 148d
Trying to get popular brands to give him free swag with his personal logo and Punisher skulls on it? I’m sure a K$H themed Monster is coming soon.
demizerone@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 148d
His password was maga12345
meco03211@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 148d
That's insane. I've got the same password on my luggage!
flandish@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 148d
that’s why mine is all stars: ******** - more secure that way.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 148d
Huh, all I see is hunter2
nieminen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 148d
Lord helmet?
miked@piefed.social · 3 pts · 148d
My fancy luggage only has 3 digits. 1,2,3 is secure enough.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 148d
Fucking banchode pwnt.
Them MAGAts used to brag about the Clintons taken down because of a bad email server.
fierysparrow89@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 148d
Damn, before long the d1ckpics start showing up 🤢🤢🤮
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 8 pts · 148d
Every picture of Kash is a dick pic.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 9 pts · 148d
It probably wasn't hard to guess BigCa$h2026!
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 148d
njm1314@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 148d
All from 2019 or earlier? Why would I care?