A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker.” according to a document The Ministry of Justice announced this on Friday.
The document, which was released as part of the Justice Department’s legally mandated effort to release documents related to the investigation into the deceased sex offender, does not identify who the alleged hacker was but does provide several details about them.
According to the informant, 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 is said to have developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed Central African government, the United Kingdom and the United States. The informant told the FBI that Epstein’s hacker sold a zero-day to Hezbollah, who paid him with “a briefcase full of cash.”
According to the informant, the hacker was “very good at finding vulnerabilities.”
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It is important to note that this document contains allegations only from the informant and not directly from the FBI. It is therefore unclear how reliable the information and accusations are.
The FBI declined to comment when contacted by TechCrunch. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
The Justice Department said on Friday announced the release of 3.5 million additional pages from the Epstein files. The newly released files, some of which are heavily redacted, contain more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
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