GMail, like Apple, has specific enhanced security programs available for Politically Exposed Persons:
https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/
The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail himself of this just reiterates how incompetent he is, in addition to being corrupt as heck.
It would be poetic justice to get the unredacted Epstein files via Iran...
It's possible it was breached in 2022 and they've held on to it until now.