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Posted by m-hodges 2 days ago

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email(www.reuters.com)
https://ddosecrets.org/article/kash-patel-emails

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/doj-confirms-fbi...

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Bender 2 days ago|
Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

Perhaps a little embarrassing related to communications security but come on, of all the people's email to grab they had to grab one of the most boring individuals? Ice hokey, cigars, classic cars...? Is that taboo in Iran? It is not taboo in the USA.

Be careful Iran. The country you are targeting know how to use AI and can make ultra realistic videos and images of your leaders doing unspeakable things and upload them to decentralized platforms. Such things can not be erased from the internet.

nickpinkston 2 days ago||
Iran... if you're listening...

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

shagie 2 days ago||
Is this a reference to

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-...

> "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," Trump said in a July 27, 2016 news conference.

nickpinkston 2 days ago||
Haha - yes exactly.
shagie 1 day ago||
They'd be a couple years late on that.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-comprom... (reported last year)

nickpinkston 1 day ago||
Better late than never...
huggerl88 2 days ago||
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AngryData 2 days ago|||
All the time, just those military aged men don't call them their enemy because they know they aren't. Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afganistan, etc, most people don't consider the majority of those peoples the enemy whether they are fighting or not because they don't think we should have been trying to kill or subjugate them in the first place.

The goals and ideals of politicians and powermongers rarely aligns with the majority of the population.

flipgimble 2 days ago||||
I’d never support a repressive theocracy like the current Iranian regime and will not cheer on their propaganda operations.

But let’s not confuse this Iran conflict with a legitimate war. Only congress can declare war and appropriate funds for a war. What we have is a rogue authoritarian executive that was incompetent enough to ignore military assessments and be manipulated by Netanyahu to strike.

People should protest like there is no tomorrow when la senile demagogue is destroying the international world order, free trade and freedom of the seas. That is not the same as rooting for the enemy!

guzfip 2 days ago||
> What we have is a rogue authoritarian executive that was incompetent enough to ignore military assessments and be manipulated by Netanyahu to strike.

Yeah, except we’ve had that for the entirety of this century so far at least.

embedding-shape 2 days ago||||
Maybe we need to get rid of the concept of "enemy" and "ally", as seemingly those labels matter less and less as time goes on.

Maybe one is the "enemy", and the others can be "less enemy" and "more enemy". So we're all enemies in reality, but some more enemies than others.

fhdkweig 2 days ago|||
how about "useful" and "not useful"?
Zigurd 2 days ago|||
We had allies. Now they are treaty signatories asking themselves WTF?
paxys 2 days ago||||
Iran has done nothing to harm the average American. Who is the enemy, really?
trimethylpurine 2 days ago||
Are you serious?

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/03/06/iranian-and-iranian-...

blitzar 2 days ago||||
There are 193 countries in the world other than America and whichever country they are bombing this week.
SG- 2 days ago||||
this is where you find out you're the bad guy.
huggerl88 2 days ago||
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ProllyInfamous 2 days ago||||
The time is now, fellow old men.

—older #millenial (recently re-enlistable ha ha ha ja ha ha)

taytus 2 days ago||||
Who said they are the enemy?
bcjdjsndon 2 days ago||
Yeah lol, if you're suddenly policeman of the world going after evil regimes, how is North Korea still standing? They're forced to be robots or they're killed
pasquinelli 2 days ago||
consider that the same people that tell you what's going on in the DPRK also said iran was two weeks away from nuking the middle east, that something called the cartel of the sun was responsible for the drug trade in the united states, and that epstein killed himself.
guzfip 2 days ago||
At the end of the day. There are enough idiots to fall for it not once, but twice. The exact same lie.

We’re doomed because the people are idiots.

pasquinelli 2 days ago||||
look up revolutionary defeatism.
KnuthIsGod 2 days ago||
I wonder if the Nazi cabinet was as bizarre as the current America cabinet...
BenFranklin100 2 days ago||
I’m surprised no group has hacked the Epstein files, given the extreme interest.
saltyoldman 2 days ago|
hacking groups are generally funded by the people that are in the files. -> government leaders.
jameskilton 2 days ago||
But ... but her emails!
Levitz 2 days ago|
I mean, yes? You can give whatever weight you want to the whole thing, but the core issue with Hillary Clinton and the emails was that she was storing material on a private server rather than in official infrastructure.

If Patel didn't do such thing here, the breach should only expose personal stuff, if he did, then it's much more of a problem, but either way this is a really clear example of why concern was raised back at the time.

gigatexal 1 day ago||
It’s an administration filled with incompetent fools whose only expertise is in grifting.

This hack of his emails is hilarious, though. And it made my day.

gsibble 1 day ago||
JFC. This does not belong on HN. Look at the discussion. Nothing but politics.
pugchat 2 days ago||
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deringeorge2 2 days ago||
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techpulse_x 2 days ago|
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