An unidentified foreign hacker successfully breached the FBI’s field office in New York, gaining access to files related to the investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as reported by Reuters. The hacker inadvertently accessed a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York field office, which was left vulnerable due to a security lapse by an FBI special agent working on the case.
According to court documents cited by Reuters, the breach involved the hacker accessing specific files linked to the Epstein investigation. The FBI spokesperson confirmed that the investigation into the cyber incident is ongoing. After the breach in 2023, the FBI contained the affected network, isolated the incident, restricted access for the malicious actor, and rectified the network.
Remarkably, the hacker was unaware they had infiltrated the FBI until agents invited them to a video call where their credentials were revealed, as stated by a source to Reuters.
Source: TechCrunch