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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh my Patel!
Patels emails were hacked by an Iranian hacker! This is worse than Singbalgate!
What a bunch of incompetent idiots!
Just breaking from Yahoo News!
I wonder what his password was?
FBI_wannabe26 ?
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Oh my Patel! (Original Post)
imanamerican63
18 hrs ago
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Deuxcents
(26,851 posts)1. When do we see them?
leftstreet
(40,582 posts)4. Here ya go
MeidasTouch
@MeidasTouch
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NEWS: FBI Director Kash Patels personal email has been hacked by Iran-linked group Handala Hack, DOJ says.
The group released personal photos and documents after claiming it breached the FBI, warning its security was nothing more than a joke.
@MeidasTouch
·1h
NEWS: FBI Director Kash Patels personal email has been hacked by Iran-linked group Handala Hack, DOJ says.
The group released personal photos and documents after claiming it breached the FBI, warning its security was nothing more than a joke.
Link to tweet
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Catlady123
(46 posts)2. I wish they would hack the epstein files
MineralMan
(151,219 posts)3. Here's the missing link:
If you post a news story, include a link, please, so everyone can go and find out what you're talking about. Thanks.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-142402770.html
Baitball Blogger
(52,314 posts)5. Now everyone in the world knows what we know.
It's amateur hour in the U.S.
PCIntern
(28,353 posts)6. Maybe some dick-pics:
Bring your magnifying glass.
GopherGal
(2,903 posts)7. Thinking the password was more like
Tkachuck_wannabe26
The tough part was probably cracking the spelling error on "Tkachuk"
some_of_us_are_sane
(3,158 posts)8. The hackers probably
demanded payment but Patel say, "WELL, I'M A LITTLE SHORT..."


LeftInTX
(34,232 posts)9. Sounds like they hacked an older (somewhat dormant) account
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/iranian-hackers-publish-emails-allegedly-stolen-kash-patel-rcna265490
The group published on its website several photos of Patel that do not appear to have previously been made public, according to an NBC News review through several reverse-image searches. The hacked emails appear to have been sent from or to a personal Gmail account that is listed as belonging to Patel in at least one public government document. Gmail didnt respond to a request for comment.
All of the emails predate Patels work with the Trump administration, and metadata from the files indicate they were hacked before the war began. The emails Handala posted are curated and are arranged into folders last modified on May 21, 2025. Most of the emails are dated between 2010 and 2012, and the most recent is a plane ticket receipt from 2022.
In one email in the dump from 2014 when he worked in the Justice Departments National Security Division Patel appears to have used his DOJ email to send himself a link, ccing both his FBI address at the time and his personal Gmail
Many of the emails are personal and involve correspondence among Patels family. Some are of Patel appearing to be on a trip to Cuba.
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Emails were posted on Telegram
The group published on its website several photos of Patel that do not appear to have previously been made public, according to an NBC News review through several reverse-image searches. The hacked emails appear to have been sent from or to a personal Gmail account that is listed as belonging to Patel in at least one public government document. Gmail didnt respond to a request for comment.
All of the emails predate Patels work with the Trump administration, and metadata from the files indicate they were hacked before the war began. The emails Handala posted are curated and are arranged into folders last modified on May 21, 2025. Most of the emails are dated between 2010 and 2012, and the most recent is a plane ticket receipt from 2022.
In one email in the dump from 2014 when he worked in the Justice Departments National Security Division Patel appears to have used his DOJ email to send himself a link, ccing both his FBI address at the time and his personal Gmail
Many of the emails are personal and involve correspondence among Patels family. Some are of Patel appearing to be on a trip to Cuba.
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Emails were posted on Telegram