Posted on Oct 19, 2015
CIA Director's Emails Were Hacked By A High School Kid?
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Unidentified hacker tells New York Post he hacked John Brennan's email
Twitter accounts have linked to supposed contact list and call log of Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines
Supposed hacker claims to have tricked Verizon employee into revealing Brennan's personal information and then accessing account.
Twitter accounts have linked to supposed contact list and call log of Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines
Supposed hacker claims to have tricked Verizon employee into revealing Brennan's personal information and then accessing account.
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WikiLeaks claims to have the CIA director’s personal emails — and plans to release them
WikiLeaks claims to have obtained the contents of CIA Director John Brennan's personal AOL email account — and that they'll be released "shortly." Earlier this week, a teenage hacker claimed to have obtained Brennan's AOL emails. The hacker could very well have passed them off to WikiLeaks. We're not sure what's in Brennan's private emails, so it's hard to say how bad this is for him or for the US government. But, coming at the same time as...
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It was his personal email account. I can say with a high degree of certainty that his password was "password," or something equally easy.
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Sgt Tom Cunnally
The FBI and other federal agencies are now investigating the hacker, with one source saying criminal charges are possible, law enforcement sources said.
“I think they’ll want to make an example out of him to deter people from doing this in the future,” said a source who described the situation as “just wild” and “crazy.”
“I can’t believe he did this to the head of the CIA,’’ the source added. “[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cybersecurity, and as you can see, it can be problematic.”
In a series of phone conversations with The Post, the hacker described himself as an American high school student who is not Muslim and was motivated by opposition to US foreign policy and support for Palestine.
He wouldn’t reveal his name or say where he lived but made good on a promise to tweet “CWA owns John Brennan of the CIA” as a means of verifying his control over the @phphax Twitter account.
“I think they’ll want to make an example out of him to deter people from doing this in the future,” said a source who described the situation as “just wild” and “crazy.”
“I can’t believe he did this to the head of the CIA,’’ the source added. “[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cybersecurity, and as you can see, it can be problematic.”
In a series of phone conversations with The Post, the hacker described himself as an American high school student who is not Muslim and was motivated by opposition to US foreign policy and support for Palestine.
He wouldn’t reveal his name or say where he lived but made good on a promise to tweet “CWA owns John Brennan of the CIA” as a means of verifying his control over the @phphax Twitter account.
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Don't see a problem, unless there was classified material being discussed.
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Sgt Tom Cunnally
CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance — until he recently learned that it had been infiltrated, the hacker told The Post.
Other emails stored in Brennan’s non-government account contained the Social Security numbers and personal information of more than a dozen top American intelligence officials, as well as a government letter.
Other emails stored in Brennan’s non-government account contained the Social Security numbers and personal information of more than a dozen top American intelligence officials, as well as a government letter.
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Sgt Tom Cunnally
MCPO Roger Collins - Probably will learn more later today as this news just broke on my Twitter Page...
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