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\n FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. Pic:Reuters<\/p>\n
In a statement, the FBI said: “The FBI is aware of malicious actors targeting Director Patel’s personal email information, and we have taken all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks associated with this activity.”<\/p>\n
The bureau added: “The information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information.”<\/p>\n
Earlier, a Department of Justice official told Reuters the material appeared to be authentic.<\/p>\n
One of the hacked photos showed Mr Patel standing beside an antique sports car; another showed him with a cigar in his mouth.<\/p>\n
Many of the records released appeared to relate to his personal travels and business in years past, before he was appointed to head the bureau.<\/p>\n
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\n FBI headquarters in Washington DC. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n
It’s not clear when the infiltration occurred, but Mr Patel was reportedly informed by the FBI in December 2024 that he had been targeted as part of an Iranian<\/a> hack.<\/p>\n Handala, a pro-Iranian, pro-Palestinian hacking group, also took credit this month for a cyber attack on Stryker, a Michigan-based medical technology company.<\/p>\n Read more: They said it was in retaliation for US strikes that they claimed had killed Iranian schoolchildren.<\/p>\n The group was singled out by the Justice Department when it announced last week it had seized four web domains tied to Iranian hacking schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-Iranian hackers say they’ve infiltrated the account of FBI director Kash Patel after posting his personal photos and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-369440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Foreign Office data compromised by hackers in cyber breach<\/a>
Does America think they’re fighting a ‘holy war’ in Iran?<\/a><\/p>\n