Iran-Linked Hackers Claim Breach of Kash Patel’s Emails, Photos

A hacker group with ties to Iran has claimed it accessed the personal emails of the FBI director, Kash Patel, and published his personal photographs and a professional resume on its website.The group, Handala Hack, said it was retaliating after the Justice Department seized four domains used by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security — including Handala-Hack.to and Justicehomeland.org — that the DOJ said were used “in furtherance of attempted psychological operations targeting adversaries of the regime.” “The so-called ‘impenetrable’ systems of the FBI were brought to their knees within hours of our team,” Handala Hack said in a statement. It added that Mr. Patel’s confidential information, including purportedly classified files, was available for download. A DOJ official confirmed to Reuters that Mr. Patel’s personal emails had been breached. An FBI spokesman did not respond to questions from The New York Sun. Photos of Mr. Patel, along with his professional CV that pre-dated his time as FBI director, were circulating online Friday morning. The photos, hardly sensational or damning, show Mr. Patel driving in a vintage automobile and savoring a cigar, among other things. Earlier this month, Handala Hack claimed responsibility for hacking a Michigan-based medical tech company, Stryker, in what was the first significant cyberattack since the United States’ military strikes on Iran, codenamed Operation Epic Fury, began on February 28.On Thursday, a message attributed to a “Handala-affiliated” Telegram channel warned of an FBI breach “coming soon,” according to an X post by Daily Dark Web, an independent media platform that covers cybersecurity incidents and data breaches. It said the group was acting in retaliation for America having “started a confrontation and conflict with us.”“Soon you will realize that the FBI’s security was nothing more than a joke. Are you ready for the biggest security breach of the past decade?” the post read. The Telegram channel that was linked to Handala has since been taken down.

Iran-Linked Hackers Claim Breach of Kash Patel’s Emails, Photos

Iran-Linked Hackers Claim Breach of Kash Patel’s Emails, Photos

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