NEW: Hackers have leaked a portion of FBI director Kash Patel's emails online, confirming Reuters.

[zackwhittaker@mastodon.social]

NEW: Hackers have leaked a portion of FBI director Kash Patel's emails online, confirming Reuters.

TechCrunch has verified that at least portion of the leaked emails from Patel's Gmail account were authentic by verifying cryptographic signatures contained in the emails.

w/ @lorenzofb:

Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patel's personal email account | TechCrunch

Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Iran’s government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.

TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

[lupus_blackfur@mastodon.world]

@zackwhittaker @lorenzofb

Any bets his only password is "Ka$h"...???

[paul@oldfriends.live]

@zackwhittaker If it shows he has done government work through that Gmail account, I hope the FOIA people pounce hard on Kash and anyone else in the emails that transacted gov business via private email

@lorenzofb

[zackwhittaker@mastodon.social]

FBI said it's "aware of malicious actors" targeting Patel’s email and that "the information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information."

Many files are dated 2014 to ~2019. But as noted by William Turton on X, a single email is dated 2022, sugesting more may leak.

Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patel's personal email account | TechCrunch

Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Iran’s government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.

TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)