US Justice Department Releases Millions of Pages of Epstein Files; Informant Claimed Epstein Had a Personal Hacker
The United States Justice Department released over three million pages of documents from its investigative files on the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, January 30, 2026. The release was mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law enacted after months of public and political pressure to reveal what the government knew about Epstein's sexual abuse of young girls, according to Euronews.
Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that the department was resuming disclosures under the law. The released material stems from the Justice Department's investigation into Epstein.
Separately, a document released as part of the Justice Department's effort revealed that a confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a personal hacker, according to TechCrunch. The document does not identify the alleged hacker but includes details about them.
According to the informant, the hacker was an Italian national born in the southern region of Calabria. The hacker specialized in finding vulnerabilities in iOS, BlackBerry devices, and the Firefox browser. The informant claimed the hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States, according to TechCrunch.
In other news, US journalist Don Lemon was arrested on Friday in connection with an anti-immigration crackdown protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church, Euronews reported. Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023, was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he had been covering the Grammy Awards, according to his attorney Abbe Lowell. Lemon has stated that he has no affiliation to the organization that went into the church and that he was there as a journalist chronicling protesters.
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