Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersHackers linked to Iran have published private messages and photos of FBI Director Kash Patel that they claim to have swiped from a personal email. The “Handala Hack Team” took a victory lap for the breach on Friday, bragging on its website that “so-called ‘impenetrable’ systems of the FBI were brought to their knees within hours by our team.” However, the hacked material appears to predate Patel’s stint as director.The group shared undated photos of a younger-looking Patel, now 46, during a trip to Havana, Cuba. He is photographed sniffing and smoking a cigar, standing by a 1955 DeSoto Firedome, and posing with a statue of Ernest Hemingway at the city’s El Floridita Bar.Read more at The Daily Beast.
March 27, 2026