Iran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet.
On their website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said Patel “will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims.” A Justice Department official confirmed that Patel’s email had been breached and said the material published online appeared authentic.
Apparently it was just Gmail:
So the director of the FBI is regularly subject to data breaches? Am I reading that correctly?
I think it’s less that he is personally being hacked, but rather he’s using common public services which do.
It’s Gmail. If Gmail is the weak link then he didn’t get hacked, the entire world got hacked.
Yes in this case it was targeted at his account. I was referring to the “previous data breaches” in which “the address [was] linked to Patel.” To me a data breach is when a company is targeted and the attackers gain access to a data set. Those data sets are often just lists of customer personal information. Like names, shipping addresses, phone numbers, emails, birthdays, and things like that. Then that leaked info can be used by future bad actors to target and individual.