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

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

sebastian_z

Comments (123)

  • trelane
    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...
  • unparagoned
    It’s all fine since he didn’t use it for official business right, right…
  • dlev_pika
    I still can’t get over the fact that *Kash “Stay in my lane” Patel* is heading the FBI
  • hmokiguess
    Was he running openclaw on his unpenetrable system by any chance?
  • throwawaysoxjje
    But his emails!
  • sv123
    Clowns, all the way down.
  • k310
    A great many experts in the military, medicine, disaster relief, and cybersecurity { the list goes on } were fired.It's almost as if the nation were being weakened on purpose.Don't get mad, get Vlad. Or just prepare for the long-desired Rapture.[0] and which politicians seem to be working very hard to being about (the Apocalypse part, anyway)[0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/us/iran-israel-evangelicals-p...> Prophecy, not politics, may also shape America’s clash with IranSo, is prophecy OK in a pitch deck? Asking for a friend.
  • chao-
    From the administration that brought us "We are currently clean on OPSEC", I can't claim surprise. Disappointment, but not surprise.Nor, however, can I take the statements of malicious actors at face value. They hacked a personal email address, but that does not mean "the FBI’s security was nothing more than a joke".
  • mjmsmith
    "Iran, if you're listening..."
  • ChrisArchitect
  • lern_too_spel
    This is the end of his high profile bureaucrat career. Inevitably, something will show up in the emails that will get airplay as embarrassing to Trump, and Trump will just say that he should have protected his password better and ask for his resignation.He doesn't have a face for Fox News, so he'll have to try to parlay his past closeness with the administration for lobbyist money, but if he gets shunned by the people left in the administration, he's got to go back to his public defender job.
  • noosphr
    Imagine a world where gpg encryption was the norm instead of something that only works reliably in Emacs.
  • PilotJeff
    BRING IT ON
  • trhway
    Hegseth - Signal appNoem - habeas corpus definition she gave at the Congress hearingKennedy Jr - vaccines and the rest of his view on medicineNow Patel's unhackable FBI.I think the world has changed, and i really need to update my expectations of what is new normal. It is like in tech when paradigm shift happens, and you're either go with the new paradigm or get irrelevant.
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  • upheaval7276
    I'm no fan of this administration, at all, but this seems like a big fat nothingburger. They hacked a personal gmail account, not a government account, not government infra. Why is this not a failing of Google instead of the government? And surely the hackers would have eagerly released anything damning, but nothing damning seems to exist. What am i missing here?
  • OhMeadhbh
    Certainly the FBI and GMail having gaps in their operational information security isn't news.