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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email, publish excerpts online (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

Was his secret question instantly guessable from his Facebook profile, or did the moron get phished?

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    [–] 125 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It’s Gmail. If Gmail is the weak link then he didn’t get hacked, the entire world got hacked.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    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.

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    • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Anyone got a link to the leaks? Would love to know what he spends his time emailing about instead of doing his job

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    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.

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    • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That'll happen when your IT systems are no longer guarded by the woke femboys and furries.

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    • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    His password was maga12345

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    That's insane. I've got the same password on my luggage!

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    • [–] 10 points 7 months ago*

    Fucking banchode pwnt.

    Them MAGAts used to brag about the Clintons taken down because of a bad email server.

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    It probably wasn't hard to guess BigCa$h2026!

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Damn, before long the d1ckpics start showing up 🤢🤢🤮

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    • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    All from 2019 or earlier? Why would I care?

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    [–] 28 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    lol America is being run by complete imbeciles.

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    • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I have been through a bunch of very well known and established international online publications and seen extremely little of this news being reported.

    Here's a tiny article hidden away in the subsections of NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/fbi-director-kash-patel-hacked-email-iran.html

    Aljazeera also has a mention: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/27/fbi-director-kash-patels-emails-photos-hacked-by-iran-linked-group

    Wapo has nothing on it on their front page right now, neither does TheGuardian.

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Oh no! Anyway...

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Soooo… did they dig anything about Epstein?

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    • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Where can I download the leaks? Asking for a friend.

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    • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I'm agape. I'm flabbergasted. Someone wrote a mass noun like 'e-mail' and didn't put a fucking S on it. My God.

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