A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker.” according to document released by the Justice Department on Friday.
The document, which was released as part of the Justice Department’s legally required effort to release documents related to its investigation into the late sex offender, does not identify who the alleged hacker was, but includes several details about them.
According to the whistleblower, the hacker was Italian born in the southern region of Calabria and specialized in finding vulnerabilities in iOS, BlackBerry devices and the Firefox browser.
The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and cyber attack tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed Central African government, the United Kingdom and the United States. The whistleblower told the FBI that Epstein’s hacker sold a zero-day to Hezbollah, which paid him “a trunk of cash.”
According to the whistleblower, the hacker “was very good at finding vulnerabilities.”
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It is important to note that this document contains claims only from the whistleblower, not directly from the FBI, so it is unclear how reliable the information and claims are.
The FBI declined to comment when reached by TechCrunch. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
On Friday, the Ministry of Justice announced the release 3.5 million additional pages from the Epstein files. The newly released files, some heavily edited, include more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
