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Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out.

If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celebrate it publicly, which is why I assume they want to release information. But, there shouldn't be anything damning to release. ie, there ought not to be if the director is acting professionally. We'll see how the facts bear out. I also suppose it's possible they're just going for any win they can and there's nothing interesting here whatsoever, or it's a really boring secondary address or something.

It would be damning to discover that he was compromised by a foreign adversary.

Or that he was participating in actively covering up the Epstein crime portfolio.

Maybe it wouldn’t be enough to get American citizens in an uproar, but the rest of the world certainly pays attention to these things.

Iran... if you're listening...

We'd love to see all of those Epstein files.

Forget the Iran attribution for a second. The FBI director's personal email was already in leaked credential databases from prior breaches.
If you check their telegram channel they have some humorous photos and his resume.
Looking good there, murica, looking good
I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound good to me. The US CISA already been cut back, has lost "virtually all of its top officials"^, doesn't have a permanent director, and is operating at a further reduced capacity because of the DHS shutdown.

^ https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-senior-official-...

They got rid of all the trans people (and presumably with them a lot of the furries)... if there's 2 groups you want on your side in a cyber-conflict it's trans women and furries
A couple of DOGE teenagers were able to casually walk in and steal the entire country's social security and healthcare data (and probably more), and we were cheering them on. There is still no accountability, and it has probably already been sold to the highest bidder. So this would be the least surprising thing in the world.
"We"? Not sure how your friends group looks like but I'm very glad i don't belong to it.
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I really want to know how they did it.. was it some terrible password?

He doesn't strike me as the kinda person even using a local password manager; like keepass.

Somebody needs to find this out.

I doubt it was gmail support... surely it could not be via his phone sim, and if he didn't have two factor on; That would be so funny.

I'm tempted to check out the dark web or the telegram, but i'd rather not do either of those things.

How the heck is the buried down to page 4 after one hour?? The head of the FBI having his email hacked is a pretty big tech story.
Lots of personal opinions and low-effort jabs in this thread.
But just a personal account with materials reportedly from 2011-2022, not an FBI breach
>“This isn’t an FBI compromise — it’s someone’s personal junk drawer,” he said.

Eh, with how many people in the current administration seem to use out of band channels to communicate very important things who knows what else they located.

I'm sure it will be embarrassing for him personally, but not a breach of U.S. government systems.

Kudos to CNN for publishing a balanced take on it.

While it's appreciated, that isn't the original link and Ddos "secrets" gate keeps info to people they personally allow. The person who runs it also has been to court for a name change, citing something along the lines of wanting to work in intelligence.

Not a source I would trust unless there is no other option to get the dumps or leaks.

Real link from Handala (dead): https://handala-team.to/kash-patel-current-director-of-the-f...

Archive: https://archive.ph/ILFFH

Download: https://link.storjshare.io/raw/jxoxwyp7qosgdwldereecudqpbva/...

Password: handala

Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government. He is a real embarrassment and I feel sorry for his mother.
Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?
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No worries. As long as rigorous due diligence was followed when vetting him as a candidate, there will surely be nothing embarrassing or harmful found in his personal emails.
I'm sorry but nothing can ever be more embarrassing for that man who wrote this book to get that job

https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/19555...

What an absolute clown

But far more seriously, imagine the danger he has put this country into by firing so many critical people, some specifically and uniquely for Iran and Middle-East defense

Let's hope we don't get another 9/11 in the next 1000 days because they are completely unprepared and won't ever see it coming, maybe even on purpose

Not surprising as email providers like Yahoo's security are a joke. A former CIA director got his personal emailed pwned as well.