🗞️FBI director's email hacked

...also new developments on the war with Iran and consumer sentiment drops in March

March 27, 2026

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March 27th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patel's personal email account | TechCrunch

Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Iran’s government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.

techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/iranian-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-director-kash-patels-personal-email-account

  • Iran-linked hackers from the Handala Hack Team claimed to have breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email, publishing photos of him (pre-FBI role), his resume, and various documents online as retaliation for U.S. actions against the group…a DOJ official has confirmed the compromise

  • Secretary of State Rubio informed G7 allies that the war with Iran will continue for another 2-4 weeks

  • President Trump and the Pentagon are exploring the possibility of sending at least 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East…read more here

  • President Trump has issued a presidential memorandum directing the Department of Homeland Security to use available funds to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration employees amid the ongoing partial DHS shutdown

  • The House Ethics subcommittee found Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) guilty of 25 ethics violations, stemming from her alleged theft of over $5 million in FEMA COVID relief funds via her family's healthcare firm, which she funneled to her 2022 campaign and personal luxuries…the bipartisan subcommittee deferred sanctions until after April recess, amid federal charges and growing Democratic calls for resignation, Cherfilus-McCormick denies any wrongdoing

  • A group of Epstein survivors have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Justice Department and Google, alleging the DOJ improperly released unredacted files that exposed their identities and that Google continues to surface that sensitive information in search results and AI products despite takedown requests

  • A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Pentagon’s attempt to label AI company Anthropic as a “supply‑chain risk”

  • The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, has invested $600 million in prediction‑markets platform Polymarket, completing a previously announced $2 billion commitment from 2025

  • U.S. consumer sentiment (how Americans feel about the economy and their personal finances) fell 5.8% from 56.6 points in February to 53.3 in March, marking the lowest level since December 2025

  • S&P down 1.67% / Nasdaq down 2.15% / DOW down 1.73%

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