Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

reuters.com

440 points by m-hodges 2 days ago


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

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/doj-confirms-fbi...

everdrive - 2 days ago

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.