Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

everdrive

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celebrate it publicly, which is why I assume they want to release information. But, there shouldn't be anything damning to release. ie, there ought not to be if the director is acting professionally. We'll see how the facts bear out. I also suppose it's possible they're just going for any win they can and there's nothing interesting here whatsoever, or it's a really boring secondary address or something.

nickpinkston

Iran... if you're listening... We'd love to see all of those Epstein files.

CrzyLngPwd

Where did the article go?

kevincloudsec

Forget the Iran attribution for a second. The FBI director's personal email was already in leaked credential databases from prior breaches.

ThaDood

If you check their telegram channel they have some humorous photos and his resume.

bcjdjsndon

Looking good there, murica, looking good

mlmonkey

> On their website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said . . . . Anybody have a link? You know, for science ... Edit: Apparently, just last week the DoJ snatched their domains: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-i...

macNchz

I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound good to me. The US CISA already been cut back, has lost "virtually all of its top officials"^, doesn't have a permanent director, and is operating at a further reduced capacity because of the DHS shutdown. ^ https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-senior-official-...

paxys

A couple of DOGE teenagers were able to casually walk in and steal the entire country's social security and healthcare data (and probably more), and we were cheering them on. There is still no accountability, and it has probably already been sold to the highest bidder. So this would be the least surprising thing in the world.

mattbis

I really want to know how they did it.. was it some terrible password? He doesn't strike me as the kinda person even using a local password manager; like keepass. Somebody needs to find this out. I doubt it was gmail support... surely it could not be via his phone sim, and if he didn't have two factor on; That would be so funny. I'm tempted to check out the dark web or the telegram, but i'd rather not do either of those things.

basisword

How the heck is the buried down to page 4 after one hour?? The head of the FBI having his email hacked is a pretty big tech story.

jameskilton

But ... but her emails!

griffzhowl

But just a personal account with materials reportedly from 2011-2022, not an FBI breach

pixl97

>“This isn’t an FBI compromise — it’s someone’s personal junk drawer,” he said. Eh, with how many people in the current administration seem to use out of band channels to communicate very important things who knows what else they located.

7174n6

I'm sure it will be embarrassing for him personally, but not a breach of U.S. government systems. Kudos to CNN for publishing a balanced take on it.

mplanchard

Link if you want to look: https://bsky.app/profile/ddosecrets.org/post/3mi2iokglyn2w

joe_mamba

Did they find those non-existent Epstein files? @vrganj No, the opposite. The Trump admin with Kash Patel, was claiming early on that the Epstein files are a hoax, that he's seen the files personally and there's "nothing there". @vrganj It makes sense if you know the context.

nullable_bool

Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government. He is a real embarrassment and I feel sorry for his mother.

morkalork

No worries. As long as rigorous due diligence was followed when vetting him as a candidate, there will surely be nothing embarrassing or harmful found in his personal emails.

ck2

I'm sorry but nothing can ever be more embarrassing for that man who wrote this book to get that job https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/19555... What an absolute clown But far more seriously, imagine the danger he has put this country into by firing so many critical people, some specifically and uniquely for Iran and Middle-East defense Let's hope we don't get another 9/11 in the next 1000 days because they are completely unprepared and won't ever see it coming, maybe even on purpose