Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked (nbcnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The FBI and Secret Service are looking into reports that non-government personal accounts of CIA Director John Brennan and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson were hacked. NBC reports: "Questions over a possible hacking of a private email account belonging to the CIA director arose late on Sunday after the New York Post published a story in which a hacker claimed to have gained access to the account. Described by the Post as a 'stoner high school student,' the individual claimed to have taken documents that included the Social Security numbers of top intelligence officials, among other information." ComputerWorld's story on the hack describes some of the images published by the hacker as well, poking fun at Brennan: Another screenshot shows Brennan’s wireless phone bill as the hacker taunted the CIA to “step your game up homies, we own everything of you.” One tweet contains a screenshot of suspicious activity logs as Brennan was “trying to get CWA arrested.” Yet another shows a CIA Office of General Counsel fax cover page. Supposedly, Brennan offered the hacker money to “leave him alone.”

Comments

Personal email account so what?

[butchersong]

This is a personal email account. It shouldn't matter all that much that it was hacked unless he was using it for the people's business when he shouldn't have been. Well, other than the fact that some stoner kid was able to get leverage and personal info on the CIA director.. but if that is the case then we should assume the russians, chinese etc. already had such access.