CIA Boss Personal Email Hacked by Teenager, Sensitive Documents Leaked on Twitter

[Batu69]

CIA director was sending sensitive docs to his AOL email

John Brennan woke up on October 18 and was greeted by a New York Post headline that read that an unknown teen hacker had managed to compromise his personal AOL email account, steal important documents, and then leak them on Twitter.

The hacker (@phphax on Twitter) says he managed to break into Brennan's AOL email account after he and two friends posed as Verizon employees and then tricked another employee into revealing personal details for Brennan's account.

This included Brennan’s Verizon account number ID, 4-digit PIN code, secondary phone number, AOL email address, and the last four numbers for his bank account.

They then used this information to reset the password for Brennan's AOL email account, from where they managed to steal sensitive government information, attached to some emails, which the CIA director sent to his personal email from his White House issued mail account.

Hackers stole over 40 emails with sensitive information

The hack took place on October 12, and the hackers found over 40 emails containing sensitive information, which they slowly started leaking on Twitter and on anonymous text-hosting websites the following days.

Twitter took down the tweets immediately, and AOL deactivated Brennan's email account on Friday, October 16. After the tweets were taken down, the hacker also claims to have sent some of the documents to one of Anonymous' Twitter accounts.

The hacker had access to Brennan's email account for three days. Brennan possibly detected the intrusion and reset his password three times, but the attacker re-accessed the account every time.

Hackers personally called Brennan to inform him of the hack

During this time, the hackers called Brennan to inform him his account was hijacked and jokingly ask for two trillion dollars. After this incident, the AOL account was taken down.

The sensitive information found in Brennan's AOL account includes: documents Brennan filled to get security clearance for the CIA's applications and projects, records on some CIA employees, and phone call logs from July 20 to October 12 with Avril Haines, the White House's Deputy National Security Advisor, former CIA Deputy Director.

The hacker gave several interviews to major US news outlets and even said that, at one point, during August, he prank-called CIA headquarters, managing to get in contact with Brennan himself, reciting Brennan's SSN (Social Security Number) and then hanging up.

The hacker is a US high school student

In the same interviews, the hacker said he is a US citizen, not Muslim, but carried out the attacks because he opposes the US' aggressive foreign policy.

The unnamed hacker also claims to have hacked US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. In this case, the hacker was allegedly able to access Johnson's Comcast account and listen to his voicemail. He also posted billing information from Johnson's account on Twitter, but that account is now suspended.

As you'd expect, the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and any other US law enforcement agency under the sun are investigating this case.

"It does not appear that any classified information was accessed" meanwhile.. pic.twitter.com/tOSlMtS3Ly — cracka (@phphax) October 19, 2015

Well, John Brennan deleted his email because we kept jacking it LOL pic.twitter.com/1QbGblEPQz — cracka (@phphax) October 16, 2015We sent @GroupAnon documents confirming we actually do have documents from his email. I guess Mr Brennan broke the law! :o — cracka (@phphax) October 20, 2015

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[straycat19]

Verizon, that figures. They need to adopt a policy of no personal info over the phone. If you want to know something you need to leave your number and we will have the person concerned call you. That has always been our policy back to the early 70s when it comes to personal information. They'll have the idiot within a week because he left tracks all over the place because hackers are stupid. Hell, high school grads can't even count change any more, take away their cash register and they are totally lost.

[212eta]

CIA director was sending sensitive docs to his AOL email.

What a genius... :rolleyes:

[steven36]

. If they would had used a normal land land and just said it or the post office instead of cell phone or pc none this would ever happened . :lol:

All this is going to cause is the government to use more secure forms of communication Its not going stop them from spying on you .Hackers cant do nothing without a computer to attack remember that .

If a kid can can hack the CIA email it must be really easy for the Government to hack yours..

[CODYQX4]

. If they would had used a normal land land and just said it or the post office instead of cell phone or pc none this would ever happened . :lol:

All this is going to cause is the government to use more secure forms of communication Its not going stop them from spying on you .Hackers cant do nothing without a computer to attack remember that .

If a kid can can hack the CIA email it must be really easy for the Government to hack yours..

It's even easier if you can lean on corporate. you don't even have to hack then.

But remember this idiot who should know better (he's CIA after all), was using an AOL email, nothing government, and AOL is old dead, dying garbage that's probably vastly inferior in every way to Microsoft and Google Email security, which is probably still Swiss Cheese to the NSA, PRISM or not.

[dMog]

apparently Hillary was not the only one :rolleyes:

[steven36]

. If they would had used a normal land land and just said it or the post office instead of cell phone or pc none this would ever happened . :lol:

All this is going to cause is the government to use more secure forms of communication Its not going stop them from spying on you .Hackers cant do nothing without a computer to attack remember that .

If a kid can can hack the CIA email it must be really easy for the Government to hack yours..

It's even easier if you can lean on corporate. you don't even have to hack then.

But remember this idiot who should know better (he's CIA after all), was using an AOL email, nothing government, and AOL is old dead, dying garbage that's probably vastly inferior in every way to Microsoft and Google Email security, which is probably still Swiss Cheese to the NSA, PRISM or not.

This guy most likely had this email since the 90s . And it don't matter if you use AOL.Gmail or you're ISP provider there all not safe . There are about like sending a postcard thorough snail mail were anyone can see it. The problem is not only have the masses became to reliant on Computers the nation states have too . And its not just emails its all kinds of stuff they even have hacked antivirus to get info. :)