{"id":135815,"date":"2026-03-28T05:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/iran-backed-hackers-breach-fbi-director-kash-patels-personal-emails\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:02:51","slug":"iran-backed-hackers-breach-fbi-director-kash-patels-personal-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/iran-backed-hackers-breach-fbi-director-kash-patels-personal-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-backed hackers breach FBI director Kash Patel\u2019s personal emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Mar 28 \u2013 FBI Director Kash Patel\u2019s personal email account has been hacked by an Iran-linked group, the agency has confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group, known as the Handala Hack Team, shared Patel\u2019s purported resume and photos of him on its website on Friday along with a statement that says: \u201cThis is just our beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said it was aware of \u201cmalicious actors\u201d targeting Patel\u2019s email information. \u201cThe information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agency is offering up to $10m (\u00a37.5m) for information that helps in identifying members of the Handala group.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian-backed hackers were reported to have breached Patel\u2019s private communications in 2024, weeks before he was appointed to lead the FBI. It is not clear if that breach was different from the one claimed by the Handala group on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Photos Handala claims to have taken from Patel\u2019s email account have been circulating on social media with the group\u2019s logo added as a watermark.<\/p>\n<p>The photos show Patel at various unidentified locations, including standing beside a vintage convertible, smiling next to a jet, smoking and sniffing cigars, taking a selfie next to a bottle of liquor, and posing in what appear to be restaurants and hotels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Mar 28 \u2013 FBI Director Kash Patel\u2019s personal email account has been hacked by an Iran-linked group, the agency has confirmed. A group, known as the Handala Hack Team, shared Patel\u2019s purported resume and photos of him on its website on Friday along with a statement that says: \u201cThis is just our beginning.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}