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4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad (gizmodo.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the private-information dept.

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Gizmodo: For the past several days, WikiLeaks has been publishing thousands of emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta -- and the leaks are starting to cause some serious damage. Gizmodo reports: "Many of the leaked emails contained contact info, cell phone numbers, and account data, none of which was redacted by Wikileaks before being posted. With this information accessible to anyone with the time and energy to read through it all, users on 4chan's /pol/ (politically incorrect) board were able to gain access to Podesta's Twitter account, tweeting a message in support of Trump. Imageboard posters also stumbled on an email containing Podesta's Apple ID -- and appear to have exploited it. 'iPad/iPhone info and data wiped out,' a post on Endchan claimed, show screenshots of what seems to be the hacker gaining access to Find My iPhone using Podesta's credentials. If Podesta's Apple ID was compromised, it stands to reason that his iCloud account was similarly vulnerable. And sure enough, Redditor's on r/The_Donald claim Podesta's iCloud data was downloaded. A hacker known as CyberZeist also appears to have uncovered the passwords to dozens of senators' email addresses, as well as social security numbers and credit card info for many Democrats including Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and acting Chair of the DNC Donna Brazile. The information was posted to pastebin.

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  1. How long has Podesta's email been compromised? by FireballX301 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm surprised John Podesta hasn't been given a security audit by the campaign. Audit as in, replaced phone/email/computers with securely vetted stuff + had a security contractor audit and harden his accounts with better passwords/2factor/cleaning out cross referenced credentials.

    1. Re:How long has Podesta's email been compromised? by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm surprised John Podesta hasn't been given a security audit by the campaign. Audit as in, replaced phone/email/computers with securely vetted stuff + had a security contractor audit and harden his accounts with better passwords/2factor/cleaning out cross referenced credentials.

      These are people who can't be bothered with security when they're the Secretary of State for the USA - how much less do you think they'd care about the data for a political campaign?

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    2. Re:How long has Podesta's email been compromised? by TimMD909 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Standards and practices, especially with email, were never really the Clinton way of doing things. This fans the flames on the email fiasco.

  2. Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The one-sided nature of the leaks suggests that either Wikieaks has an agenda, or it is the willing accomplice of someone who has an agenda.

    In any case, the failure to redact phone numbers and other personal information suggests that Wikileaks cannot really be regarded as a reasonable way to leak data.

    Finally, I suspect that the one-sided nature of the leaks is upsetting many people who would otherwise support Wikileaks.

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    1. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That does not excuse the bullshit that is in the Wikileaks emails. Many of us on the left where not planning on to vote for that warmonger in the first place but at leaks at the convention quite literally nuked any chance of support by many of us progressives. They made their bed, they can lay in it.

    2. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by DaHat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No doubt Trump supporters are chuckling at your realization of this... the same thing Republicans have known for ages about most of the media.

      Or are we to believe it was pure coincidence that an 11 year old Trump tape came out just 48 hours before the debate, and that just days later, several publications had interviews with some of the victims?

      It will be interesting to see/hear what other bombshells both sides have been sitting on for all of this time.

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    3. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by tomhath · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The New York Times will post anything that makes a Republican look bad. Wikileaks handles the stuff NYT doesn't publish about Democrats.

    4. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Maybe this will encourage the media to start doing journalism again and we won't need WikiLeaks anymore.

    5. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by anarkhos · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Or maybe it's one-sided because one of the candidates is a crook

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    6. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Zak3056 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The one-sided nature of the leaks suggests that either Wikieaks has an agenda, or it is the willing accomplice of someone who has an agenda.

      Welcome to the real world. Wikileaks has ALWAYS had an agenda, but that was fine for some people when Assange was targeting those they disagreed with. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, it's suddenly a problem.

      In any case, the failure to redact phone numbers and other personal information suggests that Wikileaks cannot really be regarded as a reasonable way to leak data.

      You're kidding, right? If you're leaking data, you should redact it before you give it to someone else to do with whatever they please, because who is to say that the non-redacted data won't accidentally leak, much less purposefully?

      Finally, I suspect that the one-sided nature of the leaks is upsetting many people who would otherwise support Wikileaks.

      See point one above. There are plenty on the right these days cheering them on, because many of those people are hypocrites, too.

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    7. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      We know it was held. The tape was from an NBC show. How did NBC get scooped if it was from their own show?

      Answer: they held the tape back and were planning on releasing it closer to the election. When the Wikileaks leak happened, "someone" leaked the tape to the Washington Post, which published immediately.

      So, yes, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the "p***y" tape was released to cover up the Wikileaks leaks.

      I still find it weird how a guy saying "pussy" in private is worse than a literal rapist who raped multiple women, but I'm not a Democrat, so what do I know about faux outrage.

    8. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by swb · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Even if Wikileaks had a bias, what's wrong with leaking the info of careerist establishment politicians?

      Whatever Hillary is in relation to Trump, in absolute terms she's still a bought and paid for member of the establishment.

    9. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by interkin3tic · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you read the e-mails as proof it was rigged, then you read what you wanted to read and would have believed anyway. Fivethirtyeight demonstrated that the convention was not rigged.

      You already knew that the DNC liked team-player, loyal soldier Hillary rather than independent, more-interested-in-protesting-than-governing Sanders. The e-mails conclusively proved only that. They did not show that sanders was cheated.

    10. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by nrjyzerbuny · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The word 'pussy' isn't the problem. The problem is the word 'grab'.

    11. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Perhaps if Trump hadn't publicly bragged about doing what he is now accused of, his campaign wouldn't be crashing and burning.

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    12. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by wisnoskij · · Score: 3, Insightful

      >Wikileaks has ALWAYS had an agenda

      Don't they just leak anything and everything they can get their hands on? And do not themselves get the leaks, just publish them? I don't think they are hacking Hillary campaign leaders themselves, or turning down juicy leaks from Trump.

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    13. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Publicly bragged while being accidentally recorded on a hot microphone that he wasn't aware of, while a borderline sleazy Access Hollywood guy egged him on with the "wink wink, elbow elbow" giggity routine off camera, supposedly in a trailer? I'm no rabid Trump supporter, but it's not like he was saying this stuff while at a campaign stop in Iowa.

    14. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1, Insightful

      fivethirtyeight is pretty damn partisan.

      Really, "it's her turn" just like it was Bob Dole's turn. Hopefully it will 'turn' out the same.

    15. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      When the woman consents, maybe?

      Trump was talking about how he was famous enough that women would let him "grab them by the pussy" (as he put it), not that he runs up and grabs random women. He was bragging about how attractive women found him and what they'd let him do.

      I find it amazing how "outraged" people pretend to be about Trump saying the word "pussy" but how they flat-out don't care about a serial-rapist ex-president whose wife, as a defense attorney, helped get a rapist off by attacking the character of his victim.

      But go ahead, go continue to pretend to be outraged about Trump saying "pussy" while refusing to acknowledge the victims of the Clintons.

    16. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Explain what forms of sexual contact in the stated context of "they let you do it" are clearly -not- assault, then.

    17. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      sexual assault != they let you do it

    18. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Really? I thought they were supporting Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton and the wife, Hillary Clinton, who assassinated the character of the women Bill raped. You know, the "bimbo explosion" and all that. But nobody believes the allegations when they're made against a Democrat outside of an election year, but we do believe an 11th hour media campaign near an election.

      Because if they had crimes to report, why did they wait so many years to talk about this?

    19. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The fact that you consider Sanders an extremist is very sad.

  3. Re:The Obvious Conclusion: by DaHat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So back when a 4chan user hacked Sarah Palin's personal email... the hacker was doing the bidding of the Russians?

    No doubt the Russian's were angry at the news that she could see them from her house!*

    *Yes I know it's an SNL line, still useful at rare times like this.

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