Iran-linked Hackers Hacked The FBI Director's Email Account

They leaked 10 years of his correspondence.

Iran-linked hackers hacked into the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel and made some of his correspondence public, Reuters reported.

The Handala Hack Team hacker group claimed responsibility for the incident. They said on their website that Patel was now among the victims whose accounts were successfully hacked.

A Justice Department spokesman confirmed to the agency that the FBI director's personal email had indeed been compromised and the material that appeared online appeared to be real.

The FBI has not commented on the situation, and the hackers have also not been contacted for further comment.

Handala positions itself as a pro-Palestinian hacking group, but Western cybersecurity experts believe it is one of several aliases under which Iranian cyberintelligence units operate.

Not long ago, the same group claimed to have hacked the Michigan-based U.S. healthcare company Stryker, claiming they had deleted a large amount of the company's data.

Reuters was unable to independently verify the authenticity of the posted emails. However, the personal Gmail address that Handala says was hacked matches an address linked to Patel in previous data leaks - a fact confirmed by District 4 Labs, a company that specializes in darknet intelligence.

The published material, according to Reuters, includes personal photos of the FBI director and correspondence, both personal and work-related. The emails date from 2010 to 2019.

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