A pro-Iran hacking group claimed to breach FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal e-mail inbox and posted some of the contents online.
The e-mails provided by the hacking group include travel details, correspondence with leasing agents in Washington and global entry, and loyalty account numbers.
The e-mail address the hackers claim to have compromised has been previously tied to Patel’s personal details, and the leaked e-mails contain photos of Patel and others, in addition to correspondence with family members and colleagues.
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“The FBI is aware of malicious actors targeting Director Patel’s personal email information,” the agency said in a statement on Friday. “The information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information.”
Reuters previously reported the breach of Patel’s e-mails.
The targeting of Patel’s e-mails marks the latest in a string of high-profile cyberincidents playing out alongside the US and Israeli war against Iran.
The group that took responsibility for hacking Patel’s e-mails, Handala, is linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, according to the US Department of Justice.
The FBI suspended Handala’s Web site last week after the hacking group crippled the US medical technology giant Stryker Corp.
The group said the Stryker cyberattack was carried out in retaliation for a suspected US bombing of an Iranian school.
The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program is offering up to a US$10 million reward for information leading to the identification of Handala Hack Team.
The Handala hackers referenced the multi-million-dollar reward on Friday, when they posted a file they said contains more than 320 personal e-mails from Patel.
The files provided by the hackers include hundreds of e-mails from a personal e-mail account and stretch from 2010 to 2022. During that time, Patel worked as a public defender and federal prosecutor, in addition to senior roles in counterterrorism, intelligence and defense.
The e-mails include details about trips to Canada and Havana with US Department of Justice colleagues in 2012, efforts to open a tax-exempt bank account in India in 2013, and business class flights paid for by Republican Party donor Michael Muldoon in August 2019, when Patel was serving on the US National Security Council.
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