Iran-backed hackers breach FBI director Kash Patel's emails
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“Iran-backed hackers breach FBI director Kash Patel's personal emails”
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— No relevant evidence found in archive to verify or contradict the claim about Iran-backed hackers breaching FBI Director Patel's emails
“FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account has been hacked by an Iran-linked group, the agency has confirmed”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm or refute FBI's acknowledgment of Iran-linked hackers breaching Patel's email
“A group, known as the Handala Hack Team, shared Patel's purported resume and photos of him on its website on Friday”
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“The FBI said it was aware of 'malicious actors' targeting Patel's email information”
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“The information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information”
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“The FBI is offering up to $10m (£7.5m) for information that helps in identifying members of the Handala group”
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— No evidence in archive about FBI offering rewards for Handala group members
“Iranian-backed hackers were reported to have breached Patel's private communications in 2024, weeks before he was appointed to lead the FBI”
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“Photos Handala claims to have taken from Patel's email account have been circulating on social media with the group's logo added as a watermark”
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“The BBC has not independently verified the leaked documents”
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“Cynthia Kaiser, senior vice-president at Halcyon Ransomware Research Center, told the BBC that Friday's release was likely from a historical breach”
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“In a post at the time on their now-suspended X account, Handala claimed it had wiped 'over 200,000 systems, servers and mobile devices', and extracted '50 terabytes of critical data'”
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“The group said the Stryker cyber-attack was 'in retaliation for the brutal attack' on an Iranian girls' school at the start of the war, in which more than 160 people were killed”
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“Personal accounts don't have the same level of protection and alerting as government systems, so these are often an attractive target for hackers”
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“The group said the Stryker cyber-attack was 'in response to ongoing cyber assaults against the infrastructure' of Iran and its allies”
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“Experts say this kind of operation on a senior US government official may not take much sophistication to achieve”
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“Last week, the US justice department seized several Handala domain names it says were involved in hacking schemes linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran”
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“Earlier in March, Handala group also claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack on US medical technology firm Stryker”
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“Handala said its hacking of Patel's email account was in retaliation for the FBI's seizure of its websites, as well as for the FBI offering a reward of $10m”
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“The domain used to carry out the hack against Patel was registered the same day the justice department announced it had seized the four domains associated with the group”
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“Handala group said in its statement announcing the hack that the 'so-called 'impenetrable' systems of the FBI were brought to their knees within hours'”
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