Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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BRING IT ON

I'm no fan of this administration, at all, but this seems like a big fat nothingburger. They hacked a personal gmail account, not a government account, not government infra. Why is this not a failing of Google instead of the government? And surely the hackers would have eagerly released anything damning, but nothing damning seems to exist. What am i missing here?

Certainly the FBI and GMail having gaps in their operational information security isn't news.

Iranian. Not bloody likely! Try Israeli-tied propagandists. Poke the hornets nest much?

This is quite misleading and partisan to present this as "FBI director's personal email" when the emails far predate his current role.

If I had downloaded those emails, which I haven't because I know of no website that archives the internet, and if I had read them, which I haven't because that would be a breach of someone's privacy, then certainly I would have figured out that it contains no spicy state secrets. But why spend one hour assessing an information when you can get clicks by suggesting something bigger?

Those supposedly Iranian hackers surely know how to hack the western media to get attention.

I found it actually more informative to read on the sad history of the Dena, the ship whose victims this leak was dedicated to, so it's not been a complete waste of time.