A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker.” according to a document published Friday by the Department of Justice.
The document, which was released as part of the Justice Department’s legally required effort to release documents related to its investigation into the deceased sex offender, does not identify who the alleged hacker was, but includes several details about him.
According to the informant, the hacker was an Italian born in the southern region of Calabria and specialized in finding vulnerabilities in iOS devices, BlackBerry and the Firefox browser.
The hacker would 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 zero-day software to Hezbollah, who paid him with “a trunkload 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 emanating solely from the informant, and not from the FBI directly. It is therefore unclear how reliable the information and allegations are.
The FBI declined to comment when contacted by TechCrunch. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
On Friday, the Justice Department announced the release an additional 3.5 million pages from the Epstein files. The newly released files, some heavily redacted, include more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
