Hacker claims to have breached CIA director’s personal email
An anonymous high school student is claiming to have cracked the personal email account of Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan in the name of Palestinian freedom.
The two have no firm plans to release more evidence of the compromised accounts, and wouldn’t tell me exactly what they’ve even gotten their hands on (they told the Post they have Brennan’s entire “47-page application for top-secret security clearance”). “Or, as another unnamed source told the NYPost, “[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cyber-security and as you can see, it can be problematic”.
The review follows a New York Post report that an American high school student had gained access to an AOL account allegedly used by Brennan. He never divulged his identity to the Post, though he did confirm that he was operating a certain Twitter account that had been boasting about the hack.
“We are aware of the media report, however as a matter of policy, we do not comment on the secretary’s personal security”, a DHS spokesman said.
Early indications suggest that this domestic hack is nowhere near as severe as Clinton’s use of a personal email account to handle reportedly classified materials relating to her work at the State Department.
The Post did not verify the teen’s claims, and the teen has not revealed his identity.
The hacker told the Post that the documents he was able to view were stored as attachments to emails.
The hacker spoken to by the Post that he likes to smoke marijuana with a classmate and has prank called America’s top spy.
The hacker set up a second Twitter account in which he claims to have branched out, and hacked White House Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines.
“He waited a tiny bit and hung up”, the hacker told the newspaper.
The Department of Homeland Security gave CNN a statement Monday saying it also had forwarded information about the alleged hack to authorities and that “we don’t discuss the secretary’s security information”.
The hacker also claims he listened to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s voicemails after infiltrating his online Comcast account.