{"id":228301,"date":"2026-03-27T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/iranian-hackers-breached-kash-patels-email-but-not-the-fbis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:40:10","slug":"iranian-hackers-breached-kash-patels-email-but-not-the-fbis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/iranian-hackers-breached-kash-patels-email-but-not-the-fbis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel\u2019s Email\u2014but Not the FBI\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel\u2019s Email\u2014but Not the FBI\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iranian-hackers-breached-the-fbi-directors-personal-email-but-not-the-fbi\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-27 15:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Handala\u2019s second claim, however\u2014that it hacked the FBI\u2014seems, for now, to be fiction. All evidence points to Handala having breached Patel\u2019s older, personal Gmail account. Widely believed to be a \u201chacktivist\u201d front for Iran\u2019s intelligence agency the MOIS, Handala suggested on its website that the emails contained classified information, but the messages initially reviewed by WIRED didn\u2019t appear to be related to any government work. TechCrunch did find, however, that Patel appears to have forwarded some emails from his Justice Department email account to his Gmail account in 2014.<\/p>\n

Handala, which cybersecurity experts have described to WIRED as an \u201copportunistic\u201d hacker group whose cyberattacks and breaches are often calculated more for their propaganda value than their tactical impacts, has nonetheless made the most of Patel\u2019s embarrassing breach. \u201cTo the whole world, we declare: the FBI is just a name, and behind this name, there is no real security,\u201d the group wrote in its statement. \u201cIf your director can be compromised this easily, what do you expect from your lower-level employees?\u201d<\/p>\n

Handala Hackers Put $50 Million Bounty on Trump and Netanyahu\u2019s Heads<\/h2>\n

For further evidence of Handala\u2019s bombastic rhetoric, look no further than another post on its website earlier this week (we\u2019re intentionally not linking to it) that offered a $50 million bounty to anyone who could \u201celiminate\u201d US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. \u201cThis substantial prize will be awarded, directly and securely, to any individual or group bold enough to show true action against tyranny,\u201d the hackers\u2019 statement read, along with an invitation to any would-be assassins to reach out via the encrypted messaging app Session. \u201cAll our communication and payment channels utilize the latest encryption and anonymization technologies, your safety and confidentiality are fully guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n

That bounty, Handala explained, was…<\/p>\n

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Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel\u2019s Email\u2014but Not the FBI\u2019s https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iranian-hackers-breached-the-fbi-directors-personal-email-but-not-the-fbi\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-27 15:45:00 Source…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69c6b14c2e33b7e4cae4cc2b\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/secutiy_Kash_Patel_GettyImages-2266686717.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,35],"class_list":["post-228301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228303,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228301\/revisions\/228303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}