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

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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More evidence...

[14erCleaner]

Apparently Podesta's password is "password". That's why "the Russians" have all his email, you know.

Re:More evidence...

[reboot246]

Hillary's password is "pleasehackme".

How long has Podesta's email been compromised?

[FireballX301]

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.

Re:How long has Podesta's email been compromised?

[DaHat]

Doubly so when iCloud password he was using was sent to him via email by one of his staffers... an email that was part of the Wikileaks dump: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...

Audit or not, if you have reason to believe someone has access to your stuff, best to change everything you can that might be referenced in that stuff (from a more secure device).

Re:How long has Podesta's email been compromised?

[Trailer Trash]

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?

Re:How long has Podesta's email been compromised?

[TimMD909]

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

Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[whoever57]

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.

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[DaHat]

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.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[tomhath]

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

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[0100010001010011]

The one-sided nature of the leaks suggests

That one candidate is doing enough leaking from his own mouth for it not to matter?

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[TapeCutter]

Doesn't matter who it is, failure to redact passwords, phone numbers, etc, is just wrong. I've defended them against false accusations of "sloppy redacting" in the past, now that they're not even trying, they have lost my support.

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Zak3056]

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.

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[meta-monkey]

If only Wikileaks had something on Trump so we could find out what he really thinks about women.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[swb]

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.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[nrjyzerbuny]

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

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[whoever57]

If you read the e-mails as proof it was rigged, then you read what you wanted to read and would have believed anyway

Perhaps not the convention. In California, the night before the primary election, there was an announcement on the news that Clinton had won. Guess what, turnout of Democratic electors was lower than expected. And the claim that Clinton had already won: false. Was that false claim an accident? I don't think so.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[MightyMartian]

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

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[wisnoskij]

>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.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[xQx]

Trump has never said anything so stupid [...]

Err... have you been watching the same campaign as the rest of us have?

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[guruevi]

Well, you have Russian Trump on one end and Obama/Clinton picking a fight so they can blame the Russians. They're already talking about executing retaliatory cyber attacks (at least they're giving Russia advance warning). This might not evolve into a WW3 but with ISIS almost dead, the American leadership needs a new enemy.

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[liquid_schwartz]

In California, the night before the primary election, there was an announcement on the news that Clinton had won. Guess what, turnout of Democratic electors was lower than expected. And the claim that Clinton had already won: false. Was that false claim an accident? I don't think so.

Maybe that was the Russians too. Man those guys are everywhere.

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Ungrounded Lightning]

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.

The murder of Seth Rich, along with the rumor that he was Wikileak's source for the DNC leaks, puts Assange in a tough position. Whether Seth WAS his source or not, public perception that Wikileaks sources may be killed and their leaked information thus suppressed could make his sources dry up.

To counter this he has to create the perception that, if you try to plug the leak by plugging the source, it will result in the leaks being more extreme and damaging, rather than less.

One way to do that is to publish more than would normally be published, and redact it less.

Perhaps that is what is going on: As with rule 804, where hearsay from a deceased person becomes admissible, insuring that leaks from (or perceived to be from) a murder victim are extreme might help make murder of leakers less likely.

Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[Ungrounded Lightning]

Doesn't matter who it is, failure to redact passwords, phone numbers, etc, is just wrong.

As my wife said:

"THEY read all of OUR communications. Why shouldn't WE read all of THEIRS?"

Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark?

[AmiMoJo]

They used to edit the leaks before publishing them, but various governments have been applying pressure on Assange and on their finances and on any journalist that works with them, so now due to lack of resources they just dump everything.

In other words, attempts to shut down Wikileaks have only made the leaks that much worse.

The Obvious Conclusion:

[Hartree]

Those b-tard trolls on 4chan have always been tools of Putin and the Russian government, and they are trying to tilt the election!

Let's investigate the history of finance links between Moot and the Russians. Has he ever attended FSB (He's not old enough for KGB) training? ;) (for the blindly humor impaired)

Re:The Obvious Conclusion:

[DaHat]

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.

Fake news to distract from stuff that matters

[zedaroca]

This is irrelevant. Hacked people supposedly got hacked again...
For actual news about the leaks you should go:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/575e37/new_wikileaks_podesta_emails_part_five_673_more/
https://twitter.com/wikileaks

Sample:

Best Podesta leak pair: 1) HRC stating in 2014 that the Saud+Qatar govts fund ISIL and 2) Qatar giving Bill Clinton $1m for 5 minute meeting

ABC Exec Ben Sherwood Pledges "Any and All ABC Platforms" to Help Hillary.

CNN's Donna Brazile, now head of DNC, tipped off Clinton campaign about debate question

Algeria Donated to the Clinton Campaign in order to get off the Terror Watchlist, according to Joe Scarborough

Waiting time.

[bjwest]

Who the hell goes twelve hours after learning one of your accounts has been hacked without changing all your passwords? This guy deserved what he got.

Shhh.

[MouseTheLuckyDog]

My password is ********. Seriously 8 *s, No one will ever guess/