{"id":8938,"date":"2015-10-21T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2015-10-21T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:00:50","slug":"teen-who-hacked-cia-directors-email-tells-how-he-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/21\/teen-who-hacked-cia-directors-email-tells-how-he-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen who Hacked CIA Director&#8217;s Email Tells How he Did It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/jb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8939\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/jb.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 7: U.S. Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan testifies at his nomination hearing to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Brennan is expected to face questioning the drone targeted killing program. (Photo By Chris Maddaloni\/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lede\">A HACKER WHO <\/span>claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee into revealing the spy chief\u2019s personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Using information like the four digits of Brennan\u2019s bank card, which Verizon easily relinquished, the hacker and his associates were able to reset the password on Brennan\u2019s AOL account repeatedly as the spy chief fought to regain control of it.<\/p>\n<p>News of the hack was <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/10\/18\/stoner-high-school-student-says-he-hacked-the-cia\/\">first reported by the <em>New York Post<\/em><\/a>after the hacker contacted the newspaper last week. The hackers described how they were able to access sensitive government documents stored as attachments in Brennan\u2019s personal account because the spy chief had forwarded them from his work email.<\/p>\n<p>The documents they accessed included the sensitive 47-page SF-86 application that Brennan had filled out to obtain his top-secret government security clearance. Millions of SF86 applications were obtained recently by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/06\/opm-breach-security-privacy-debacle\/\">hackers who broke into networks belonging to the Office of Personnel Management<\/a>. The applications, which are used by the government to conduct a background check, contain a wealth of sensitive data not only about workers seeking security clearance, but also about their friends, spouses and other family members. They also include criminal history, psychological records and information about past drug use as well as potentially sensitive information about the applicant\u2019s interactions with foreign nationals\u2014information that can be used against those nationals in their own country.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/10\/hacker-who-broke-into-cia-director-john-brennan-email-tells-how-he-did-it\/?mbid=nl_102015\">Wired<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee into revealing the spy chief\u2019s personal information. Using information like the four digits of Brennan\u2019s bank card, which Verizon easily relinquished, the hacker and his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2122,13,74,1317,1814,65],"tags":[2632,2633,1805],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}