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You’ve Got Fail: high school students hack CIA director’s AOL account
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Hack of John Brennan’s AOL account motivated by ‘support for Palestine’
- Personal information of 20 apparent CIA employees posted on Twitter
Federal investigators are examining claims that high school students hacked CIA director John Brennan’s personal email account and published identifying information for more than 20 alleged CIA personnel.
On Monday the hackers released a spreadsheet allegedly from Brennan’s account that included the alleged CIA employees’ clearance levels, email addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers.
Former National Security Agency technical director Jasper Graham said the highly embarrassing breach of Brennan’s email was likely a “social engineering” attack, in which personal information supposedly only the account holder would know is used to break in.
“Social media has enabled this to the nth degree, because a quick profile search and a friend request and then LinkedIn can get you enough information to start resetting things. All the providers, whether it’s credit cards or banks, have to have something else in place.”
A Twitter account being used by the hackers threatened to release more information from Brennan’s account, which they reportedly breached after the hackers convinced Verizon to give them the details. The account was suspended Monday afternoon.
The hack of Brennan’s AOL account was first reported by the New York Post. According to the Post, the unnamed 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”.
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