Overview
- - The group Handala, which announced Tuesday it had posted personal details of 2,379 Marines on Telegram, framed the leak as proof of its reach.
- - U.S. troops in Bahrain and elsewhere reported identical WhatsApp threats that cited the Minab school strike and warned of drone and missile attacks.
- - The messages, signed “Handala” and linking to its site, appeared to come from a Bahraini phone number tied to a local business, according to service members and reporters.
- - Defense officials have opened an investigation, with early findings indicating some of the leaked records are authentic, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
- - U.S. authorities have linked Handala to Iran’s intelligence ministry, seized related web domains, and earlier urged sailors to lock down accounts, as the group touts past operations including the Stryker attack and a confirmed breach of FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email.