DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

trelane wrote: post #2

The Reuters article they link to and that they mostly summarize has much more info. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-b...

Re: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 5:25 AM UTC

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Re: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

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Post by dang » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 5:26 AM UTC

trelane wrote: post #2

The Reuters article they link to and that they mostly summarize has much more info. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-b...

Thanks - we've merged the comments into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543167, which has that article.

Re: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

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Post by dang » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 5:26 AM UTC

ttctciyf wrote: post #4

trelane wrote: post #2

The Reuters article they link to and that they mostly summarize has much more info. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-b...

See also: https://ddosecrets.org/article/kash-patel-emails

Thanks - we'll add that link to the top text in the other thread.

Re: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

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Post by someguynamedq » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

Aside from the technical aspect of this (which is interesting), isn't this pretty compromising? How can the US trust that the head of the FBI is not compromised when they know his private information is owned by a country they are at war with?

Re: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

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Post by kelipso » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 1:02 AM UTC

someguynamedq wrote: post #8

Aside from the technical aspect of this (which is interesting), isn't this pretty compromising? How can the US trust that the head of the FBI is not compromised when they know his private information is owned by a country they are at war with?

There should be standard procedures for this. Something like, you go through the emails for compromising materials, so you would know vectors of attack beforehand, and train the person to not fall for them.