Pete Williams
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Darknet Diaries
139: D3f4ult
The apparent victim isn't just any American or government official. It's John Brennan, the CIA director since 2013 and a longtime key player in the U.S. intelligence community. A man who says he's an American high school student claims he hacked his way into Brennan's personal AOL email account by fooling Verizon and AOL into revealing enough information to reset the account password.
Darknet Diaries
139: D3f4ult
Hello guys, this Twitter account is going now, the apparent hacker says, posting what appears to be an actual spreadsheet of names and emails of current and former intelligence officials. The hacker blanked out their social security numbers. The hacker also says he got into the Comcast billing account of the Homeland Security Secretary, Jay Johnson.
Darknet Diaries
139: D3f4ult
This was the personal email account of Brennan, not his government account, and it appears no classified information was compromised.