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CIA Chief's AOL E-Mail Account Hacked By 13-Year Old
In many respects, this has been the year of cyberwarfare.
As we’re fond of recounting, it began with an alleged plot by Pyongyang to sabotage Seth Rogen and James Franco, reached peak absurdity when Penn State claimed Chinese hacker spies had taken over the engineering department, and turned deadly serious when the OPM suffered the largest breach of US government data in history.
The events mentioned above were part of a series of supposed breaches that include an IRS hack perpetrated by supposed “Russian organized crime syndicates” and hundreds of attacks that allegedly emanated from China and aimed to steal US corporate secrets.
All of the above comes on the heels of the NSA debate and is playing out amid a broader discussion about global cyber security.
Well don’t look now, but a “pot-smoking” Pro-Palestine, teen hacker from the group "Crackas With Attitude" claims to have breached CIA director John Brennan’s e-mail account.
Here’s more from Foreign Policy:
Fervently pro-Palestine, pot-smoking, teenage hacker claims to have hacked the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan.
The hacker in question, who goes by the moniker “cracka,” is a member of the hacker collective “Crackas With Attitude,” which appears to include at least one other member, who calls himself “cubed.” Media accounts about the alleged hack have so far focused on cracka’s role, but he told Foreign Policy via Twitter that the operation was very much the work of the collective. The hackers claim to have gotten into Brennan’s email by duping Verizon into providing them with the CIA chief’s personal information, which was then used to reset his AOL password.
Cracka has claimed that he has found a copy of Brennan’s application for a security clearance.
The hackers have so far posted what they claim to be a list of Brennan’s email contacts and a list of high-level government employees, along with their Social Security numbers and other personal information. That list of government employees includes Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. A Twitter account — since suspended — purporting to belong to the hacking collective posted what was describedas a call log for Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines.
Johnson, the DHS secretary, appears to have been heavily targeted by the hackers. Cracka claimed he infiltrated Johnson’s Comcast account andposted the message “Stop Wars” on his home television screen. He has also posted detailed information on Johnson’s family, including the address of his Georgetown home, his wife’s name and phone number, and the identity of his son’s girlfriend.
Here are some of “Cracka’s” tweets:
Just a tiny bit from a email in head of CIA's email. @TwistAnonymous @Snowden pic.twitter.com/8bWN8EY5VX
— cracka (@phphax) October 12, 2015
Huh @CIA, so you do torture prisoners? pic.twitter.com/6DuI1wazSH
— cracka (@phphax) October 12, 2015
You're now about to witness the strength of #CWA XD.
@CIA Step your game up homies, we own everything of you. :( pic.twitter.com/l3QSo18lAu
— cracka (@phphax) October 12, 2015
#FreePalestine #CWA pic.twitter.com/ItzTo9e6dc
— cracka (@phphax) October 12, 2015
Ayy @TwistAnonymous rekt cia boii #cwa pic.twitter.com/LTJyFd8CIq
— cracka (@phphax) October 13, 2015
A lil bit too personal? Meh, who cares.. #CWA @CIA pic.twitter.com/1AM50k72xr
— cracka (@phphax) October 13, 2015
Its now just a battle between me and CIA, they keep taking the account back and I keep taking it back after xD pic.twitter.com/4HdZVWZ7hw
— cracka (@phphax) October 13, 2015
Here we have John Brennan trying to get #CWA arrested (We have just jacked it again) FUCK TEH GOVVV pic.twitter.com/qb8FPRlPGd
— cracka (@phphax) October 16, 2015
You get the idea.
And here's more from Wired:
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’s personal information.
Using information like the four digits of Brennan’s bank card, which Verizon easily relinquished, the hacker and his associates were able to reset the password on Brennan’s AOL account repeatedly as the spy chief fought to regain control of it.
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 hackers who broke into networks belonging to the Office of Personnel Management. 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’s interactions with foreign nationals—information that can be used against those nationals in their own country.
“[W]e told them we work for Verizon and we have a customer on scheduled callback,” he told WIRED. The caller told Verizon that he was unable to access Verizon’s customer database on his own because “our tools were down.”
After providing the Verizon employee with a fabricated employee Vcode—a unique code the he says Verizon assigns employees—they got the information they were seeking. This included Brennan’s account number, his four-digit PIN, the backup mobile number on the account, Brennan’s AOL email address and the last four digits on his bank card.
“[A]fter getting that info, we called AOL and said we were locked out of our AOL account,” he said. “They asked security questions like the last 4 on [the bank] card and we got that from Verizon so we told them that and they reset the password.” AOL also asked for the name and phone number associated with the account, all of which the hackers had obtained from Verizon.
On October 12, they gained access to Brennan’s email account, where they read several dozen emails, some of them that Brennan had forwarded from his government work address and that contained attachments. The hacker provided WIRED with both Brenann’s AOL address and the White House work address used to forward email to that account.
So they called Brennan’s mobile number, using VoIP, and told him he’d been hacked. The conversation was brief.
“[I]t was like ‘Hey,…. its CWA.’ He was like ‘What do you want?’ We said ‘2 trillion dollars hahhaa, just joking,'” the hacker recounted to WIRED.
Brennan, the hacker says, replied, “How much do you really want?”
They told Brennan “We just want Palestine to be free and for you to stop killing innocent people.”
So, it is that easy to get into the CIA director's personal e-mail account. Simply call Verizon and pose as an employee, ask for sensitive identifying information, then call AOL and supply them with said information.
Apparently, it never dawned on anyone at Verizon or AOL that the person on the other end of the line was i) asking for information about the CIA chief in the case of Verizon, and ii) pretending to be the CIA chief in the case of AOL. We can presumably blame that on the fact that the vast majority of Americans couldn't tell you who the head of the CIA was if their life depended on it.
Now the interesting thing here is that it certainly appears from the above that Brennan was discussing matters of national security on a private e-mail account. Only this wasn't even on a personal server à la Hillary - this was on AOL.
One wonders if we'll now be able to look forward to another round of Congressional e-mail inquiries this time courtesy of "Crackas With Attitude."
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Sure!
OMG! HaX0rs!
Hold on... Hillary already used that excuse. Try another.
Hey, John, 1994 just called. They want their floppy disk back.
"You got fucked."
If true, a whole new respect for pot smoking teens.
Must be they haven't found girls yet?
They will. They got tools.
I am sure glad all of those free AOL install CDs mailed to the entire world didn't have any government spyware on them, and there is no long-standing relationship between AOL and the CIA, both HQ'd in Northern VA at the time.
I didn't know AOL still even existed
Did you know that Steve Case and Barry Soetero went to high school together, and were both allegedly recruited by the CIA?
Brennan....the musloid convert and traitor? Using AOL? Triple douchebag.
Exactly! Brennan the Muslim Brotherhood plant into the CIA greased by Barry the pretend president. An A0Loser account? Really? Wtf?
And if you believe this, I've got a bridge to sell you. Every few years the MIC promotes hacking as 'cool' so they can entrap a new generation of budding programmers. Thats all. Anonymous, Snowden, Assange...
Wonder how much Hilary paid for this cyber hit?
WHO THE FUCK STILL USES A GOD DAMN AOL EMAIL ACCOUNT?
-Chumblez.
Aparently the head of the cia does? Not sure why exactly......
Does anyone have the pictures because it seems that twitter sent them after Hillary's email and they never turned back.
No way man, this is too embarrassing to be fake.
This is the is same Brennan who refused to swear his oath of offfice with his hand on a Bible, so instead he put his hand on a vintage US Constitution
But here's the rub; it was copy of the Constitution that was written BEFORE the Bill Of Rights was added!
So, this is a great outcome.
The emails about torture techniques on his AOL account should be a felony.( not that Hitlery is any example of justice)
But hopefully he is as not as teflon as the Chosen One:
Cue a resignation letter followed by an Obama pardon in 3...2...1..
Who thinks many more of these idiots are pimpin' a AOL acct?
Some of these assholes at the top barely know how to use a computer. It's all the dudes named Ben and other techno experts who keep it all glued together.
By the way, even if classed data is found on this acct, nothing will happen to him. Just like our beloved Hillary.
These cunts have zero fucking accountability.
Director of the CIA pulls a Hillary and has classified information on an unclassified non secure server.
Resign !
The DC area is packed with MIC retirees living high on the hog on very generous pensions. I don't mind people getting a pension but I do mind incompetent people being paid big $$$ with our tax money.
Those kids are idiots. I heard them on CNN this morning using a voice scrambler. Do they think that cannot be electrically cleaned up?
DOXing the head of the CIA?
You have my admiration, kid. But you just hit the head psychopath's hot button (the red one labeled 'Full Retard'). Someone is in for a rectal feeding - hope you like hummus.
This is probably some staged BS to give the Deep State a pretense to tighten their grip on the web and it's users.
#crackalivesmatter
Exactly. I wouldn't be surprised if the language to stop this is already in the TPP - and now congress has another reason to 'have' to pass it.
Zero accountability is the same as 100% hedge.
This brings me back! Love the pyramid with the eye looking thing in the middle. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. These guys must all be using the same graphic designer.
Oh that... The Allseeing Eye... Uuh, its nothing. Nothing to see here.
Just flash the A-OK 666 hand sign, cover your one eye, flash the V 'peace' sign, tip of the hat, nudge nudge, and of course, don't forget to wink.
If a god damned 13 year old can do this, imagine what the pros in china/russia must have already done. I'm thinking every gov computer is riddled with spyware, trojans and every bit of information has been copied or compromised in some way.
If this is true, then they have to use the files that the kid stole as evidence should they prosecute him. Which means that they either prosecute Brennan and the kid, try to bully the kid into a plea, or prosecute nobody.
Reflexive secrecy can be a real bitch for the secret keepers.
It would be a plea deal, just like Hastert, so they don't have to admit that that totally corrupt child raping pervert was allowed to stay in office. Anyone who doubts this visit Sibel Edmonds site BoilingFrogsPost.com, she's been all over this issue.
That depends on the kid and his parents. I would hold out knowing that I get to ask questions that the government doesn't want to answer. They'd have to call Brennan to the stand too. You think he wants to be in that position? Plus, if true, it's a 13 year old kid. They can't go balls to the wall and claim that it's to keep the children safe. This is kanly. The forms will be obeyed.
We'll have to wait and see just how true it is.
Are we assuming there are rules for these pschopaths, i was under the impression that those were only for us little people
They break the rules with the bullying and plea deals. If the kid has a spine and tells the prosecutors "fuck you, trial," then the government will be left in the position of arguing that secret evidence not to be seen should be considered to convict a 13 year old kid for breaking into an AOL account. If this is all true, and if the kid has a spine, they will want this to go away, otherwise hilarity will ensue. If they claim national security, well, it's a fucking AOL account. If the bullying doesn't work, they either have to prosecute both or neither, else they get a lot of egg on their faces.
No judgement from me if the kid opts out of the possibility of spending his youth in prison.
The beauty of it is that it is likely a misdemeanor. Claiming otherwise is admitting wrongdoing on the part of the Brennan.
Hey... its CWA.
He was like ‘What do you want?’
We said ‘2 trillion dollars hahhaa, just joking,'
he replied, “How much do you really want?”
They told Brennan “We just want Palestine to be free and for you to stop killing innocent people.”
Brennan replied: "Fuck that. Where do you want the 2 trillion wired to?"
They will go after Verizon - deeper pockets.
Better yet, Verizon likely leaked some info to get back at the MIC for forcing phone companies to eavesdrop on all Americans and World citizens
OD the kid with powdered alcohol.
If they drop out of high school and go to work for tech in Silicon Valley, they will make enough to afford all of the girls they want.
If it flies, floats or fucks, RENT IT.
That was the wisdom passed along to me.
The girls are too busy with their iphones.
Intelligence budget committee:"What do you want?"
Brennan:"2 trillion dollars hahhaa."
McCain, Graham:"Done!"
Looks like all that offshored labor VZ & AOL are paying pennies for is biting them in the a$$.
FWIW, my account was hacked as another carrier's network was compromised. WAO for 48hrs.
Experian is aware of it, but both are not talking.
Now even funnier...Experian was hacked further compromising 15 mil T-mobil subscribers.
Uh oh, better get Life Lock.
Bwhaaaaaaa
Is this from The Onion?
There certainly are bits that do not fit the profile of a typical 13-year-old hacker. What caught my eye was the claim to have put a message on the TV of Jeh Johnson, the DHS secretary. (And what kind of a name is Jeh? At least he could use something 'normal', like JEB!) Did he somehow manage to hack into Comcast? And how did he manage to get into the TV stream, which (if I'm not mistaken) is separate from their internet stream? I don't think I've ever heard of anyone hacking into a TV stream.
Im not privy to how it exactly works because I havent had cable since high school, but I can imagine that if his Comcast account is linked to his AOL email, then they can just reset the Comcast password. And if theres a way to change that message on the TV via Comcasts website...you get the idea.
Congress demands its billions back after 13 yo defeats cyber security measures employed by DHS Secretary Johnson.
"I was like; Hey! This isn't one of our fake news stories!"- Jeh Johnson
DHS authorized Congress to give it 2billiom dollars to fight cyber crime.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203715526754309&set=a.10203706...
pwn3d
Why would the hacker grey out the sensitive data on Brennan's scans? Sounds like COMPLETE BS to me, like some kind of limited hangout operation to distract and beffudle.
I would bet that ZH greyed out the original so that they are not liable.
CIA and he has AOL, what a sad joke. everyone else in the world knows AOL is for lame amatures.
The number of current and former senior CIA staff that still uses AOL accounts would shock you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I bet the IRS is pissed they can't personally audit him.
I think he is pretty open about his preferences.
Found this pic on Brennan's twitter feed...
#save_american_dungeons
The preferred torture technique is apparently to make subjects try to cancel the director's AOL account.
"Are you ready to talk?"
"No!"
"Then...PLEASE CONTINUE TO HOLD!!!"
This fucka needs to go after Hilliary's account
ZH, you so gullible.
"You so gullible" as in sum ting wong?
An AOL account? This has to be satire...or the world's best example of "security through obscurity."
LOL
"Where do we put the file so that it is avaliable for those who need it, but nobody else will find it?"
"I dunno. I believe that not even the NSA looks at AOL anymore."
"Good call!"
Is myspace their backup plan?
Paging John Brennan...
And the hits just keep on coming.
Free Hillary!
I hope he also got grandma hillary's recipe for cookies and her yoga schedule.
Who still uses AOL?
Maybe that's why they thought it was safe lol?
... from his Wang hard drive.
probably has a dialup connection.
that's the beautiful thing about transient connections...
Old guys who want their old friends to remember how to get in touch with them. Only their old friends who used AOL are all dead by now...
only AhOLes
AOL.
hahahahahahahahaha
He uses an AOL account? I'm far from the most tech-savvy person on the planet, but even I don't have one of them any more.
We used to whip those free hours disks into our back woods. Fun times.
pods
You never put them in the microwave for ~3 seconds?
targets for 22 cal
We used them to turn our dorm room into a disco.
Its fucking redicilous! And to think the amount of forms people have to fill in to get a new pen.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/lebowski-enlightenment-1/
Just like Hilary, everyone read Brenan's email.
NSA can't protect anything, all the gov databases have been copied away to other owners.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/bayesian-sampling-theory-3/
Thanks Demdere, that is an interesting site. You related to Dindonuffin?
My favorite so far: https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/operation-afghanistan-1000...
Fucking demonic leprechaun!
Kill it before it kills all of us!!!
Top Men™
Who?
... Top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoy4_h7Pb3M
At least they kept it civil. With access to the email account, any hacker with 3 months of experience could have easily inserted pr0n in his computer hard drive, work media, phone and then reported it to foreign media outlets. A bit more advanced and you could insert a little trojan to infect everyone in his contact list and RDP into their computers, get bank account info, drain their accounts and harrass the living daylights out of them.
You don't think that CIA executives would get off as easily as that du Pont heir a year or so ago? At worst, I suspect, it would have been a career-limiting move for Brennan, who would have been fired merely for not mentioning his predilections on his SF86, and operations would have proceeded apace as soon as another qualified (i.e. blackmail-able) office tool can be found to warm the director's chair.
Email Password: 123456
That's the password that an idiot would use for his luggage.
Admin password.
/LOL
You would not BELIEVE some of the admin passwords I've seen in the past due to reality-creating CEOs. The best of the two that comes to mind was a misspelling of a famous Chicago sausage maker, lower case. The worst was about the sixth thing you would try if you were brute-forcing by hand.
This will be easier than breaking down Obama's fake birth certificate. The Layers are two deep.
whatkindadunderheadusesAOL?
Hahaha! AOL is so yesterday.
AOL is fucking futuristic compared to what most govt outfits use. The CIA probably uses Prodigy. And NASA's still retrofitting their Univac shit to communicate with VAX.
T bought Prodigy.
One big happy voyeuristic fambly.
Do you remember CompuServe? Columbus, OH.
1993 The Internet The Computer Chronicles - YouTube
More social engineering than hacking...
The CIA Director can get "socially manipulated" through his AOL account?
Is that now a job requirement?
Verizon was implicated in this report as well.
I want to know how many penis enlargement pills he ordered.
I want to know how many penis enlargement pills he ordered.
fema camps
CRACKA 2016, bitchez!!! Run, Cracka, Run! (An we niggaz DO mean RUN!!!
Deez Cracka Nuts 2016.
American exceptionalism.
who did he piss off? isn't he moving fast enough? and the kid said his name was Sirhan Sirhan because it's always the Pals. sharp cookies those PAls.
This would be funny if it wasn't so god damned sad. Not because he was hacked; but because you thought our government - and all of those paid government employees - knew what they were doing and would protect us. HA! Think again.
How high on the stupid scale do you have to get to use AOL after all the blather about Hilery- the shit face?
in fact the stupid scale doesn't go high enough for this clown.
Never give up your guns - you never know when you may need them.
We should just do away with passwords, they are apparently like locks, for a honest men only.
Well that's AOL fucked.
Apparently having learned zipola from Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, CIA Director John Brennan allegedly stored sensitive files in his non-government email account; files such as his top-secret security clearance application, “Social Security numbers and personal information of more than a dozen top American intelligence officials, as well as a government letter about the use of ‘harsh interrogation techniques’ on terrorism suspects.”
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2994451/cybercrime-hacking/stoner-h...
What are the laws about mishandling sensitive information at this level, and what are the consequences? It almost sounds like he was intentionally making this information available to be discovered with minimal technical work. Who puts SS numbers into email or stores them on a remote drive?
Legitimate point. +1
Is this just cracker collection?
I've got 5 years on that avatar.
Sorry. I like him too, and I cropped mine taller. That's gotta count for something.
But, I'll defer. As threnody actually comes from Emerson, and is an apt response to our current debacle.
The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue, and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than is the equilibrium of value in society, by the demand and supply: and artifice or legislation punishes itself, by reactions, gluts, and bankruptcies. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things that will not end well for $400, Alex.
If this is true Verizon has moles. Maybe the politically correct keystone kop hires can route them out... maybe not. Maybe they were told not to.
If you want something done right you're going to have to do it yourself.
Every big tech company has moles serving foreign intelligence agencies, and when big tech outsources IT admin jobs to the third world, they facilitate the placement of those moles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
with extreme prejudice
FUCKING GENIUS AND HILARIOUS!!!
"Now the interesting thing here is that it certainly appears from the above that Brennan was discussing matters of national security on a private e-mail account. Only this wasn't even on a personal server à la Hillary - this was on AOL.
One wonders if we'll now be able to look forward to another round of Congressional e-mail inquiries this time courtesy of "Crackas With Attitude.""
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?
You can be sure that CON-GRESS won't fucking do it.
At least CWA will do it.
Fuck these Neo-Con clowns until REAL checks and balances and public accountability are restored.
I'm laughing my ass off at these idiotic pricks. They presume to want to control the Middle East and the whole world- and yet they cannot even protect their AOL email account! The definition of FARCICAL!
Hmmmmm......
Ain't none of dat goin' on around heah.
- Ned
Password was "Guest" ?
IT techs everywhere: When will folks learn that "GOD" is not a secure pw?
I don't believe a word of this, but it's entertaining nonetheless.
Kiddie hackers is a tired story.
The probability of the hack being real is not reduced due to implausibility of the "real" identity of the anonymous hacker. That is non-sequitor. A pseudonym already implies someone trying to cover their real identity, so it stands to reason "clues" they leave about said real identity would be intentionally misleading. Try to keep up.
How about this one: "Breaking story, fetus who escapes from Planned Parenthood deathcamp hacks ObooBoo's computer and discovers goat porn"... film at eleven...
We're doomed. This fucktard forwards that stuff to his personal email? Such is the caliber of our "leaders."
AOL - Always Off Line
John Oliver Addresses Online Harassment With Parody of Old AOL ...
And the old monkey fuck AOL Parody
AOL Commercial Parody - YouTube
Release the drones! Time to vaporize this kid!
But where to release the drones to?
Doesn't matter. He's a 13 year old terrorist, therefore all 13 olds are terrorists. Drone them all. Better yet, waterboard them all until they confess.
If this were a movie, the audience would be walking out because it would be too unbelivable.
There's hope for the younger generation after all. They're not all glued to Kartrashian's fat ass or Jason Beeper's latest club brawl.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of kids these days know that they're being lied to.
..."Jason Beeper's latest club brawl" What, is the little fagula beating up three year olds in the clubs nursery?
Poor poor ruskies - under criminal putin regime rule - babushkas can't afford firewood for their home heating. Their pensions are like 85 EUR a month ( that is said in this RUssian TV material - find link below - it says that pension is 6000 RUB)! not day or week but month! Try to live with such money. So they can't afford to heat their home.
https://youtu.be/mQpSmiIckRU?t=3m7s
But there are some ruskies who than help out with firewood and deliver it for free. Its similar help like when ruskies recieved free potato to feed their families.
Poor poor ruskies :(
Now you're writing about potatoes.
Don't you have a tiny shred of imagination?
I had to read it a few times. I thought he was being trolled. But nope. A true Potato Head.
I thought people that wear combat boots with suits don't have AOL accounts....
I thought I was reading something from the Onion.
He's copying his good lesbian buddy Neocon Hillary Clinton.
They rule, because... you know..., they are so much smarter than the rest of us.
CIA director is still living in the MS kiddie script world. He slams his fist on the desk, demanding budget increases to combat WIN 95 Internet attacks.
/sarc
Given that a 13 year old hacked the chief's account. Can we exclude the possibility that people more than 13 years old also hacked his account? Or may be they only want us know the easier story.
Alfred E Newman from MAD Magazine for CIA Chief!No really,even a retarted moron couldn't even dream up this level of dim-wittedness.
TMany, if not most, of these "hacks" are Israeli ops. American suckers buy whatever the media tells them.
Anyone else pick up the "...terrorists and other detainees" part? The "other detainees" being the important info there....the veneer of jailing and toruturing you after being accused of "terrorism" seems like it won't even be needed...
What a perfect story for the CIA and NSA to force us to surrender our internet privacy.