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Purveyor

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Tue Jan 12, 2016, 06:56 PM Jan 2016

Spy Chief Hacked By Same Group That Struck CIA Head

Source: The Hill



By Julian Hattem - 01/12/16 05:25 PM EST

A hacker appears to have broken into personal accounts of the nation’s top spy chief.

The reported teenager is part of the group that hacked into CIA Director John Brennan’s personal emails last year and is using the new access for pro-Palestinian activism.

According to Vice Motherboard, which broke the news on Tuesday, the hacker claimed to have broken into a personal email and phone account of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and his wife.

The hacker, “Cracka,” appears to have changed the settings on Clapper’s home phone to redirect all incoming calls to the Free Palestine Movement. The hacker also gave Vice a list of call logs to Clapper’s home number and what they claimed were screenshots from his wife’s email account.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/265623-spy-chiefs-personal-accounts-hacked-by-teen

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Spy Chief Hacked By Same Group That Struck CIA Head (Original Post) Purveyor Jan 2016 OP
Sauce for the goose Proserpina Jan 2016 #1
I doubt very seriously that they got into the STU set LiberalArkie Jan 2016 #2
What goes around comes around . . . . JDPriestly Jan 2016 #3
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