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

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/doj-confirms-fbi-director-kash-patels-personal-email-was-hacked/

by sebastian_z • 4 months ago

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trelane• 4 months ago

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...

ttctciyf• 4 months ago

dang2• 4 months ago

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

dang2• 4 months ago

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

ChrisArchitect• 4 months ago

Earlier pre-confirmation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543167

someguynamedq• 4 months ago

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?

kelipso• 4 months ago

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.

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

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