US Intelligence director’s personal e-mail, phone hacked by Sean Gallagher.
From the post:
The same individual or group claiming to be behind a recent breach of the personal e-mail account of CIA Director John Brennan now claims to be behind the hijacking of the accounts of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed to Motherboard that Clapper was targeted and that the case has been forwarded to law enforcement.
Someone going by the moniker “Cracka,” claiming to be with a group of “teenage hackers” called “Crackas With Attitude,” told Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchiarai that he had gained access to Clapper’s Verizon FiOS account and changed the settings for his phone service to forward all calls to the Free Palestine Movement. Cracka also claimed to have gained access to Clapper’s personal e-mail account and his wife’s Yahoo account.
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See the rest of Sean’s post for the details but really, good show!
If Cracka is not an NSA operative, this hack was:
- Without national security letters to phone providers
- Without the melting NSA data center in Colorado
- Without highly paid consultants and contractors
- Without government-only grade hardware
- Without secret information about phone networks
- etc.
Sounds like all our data is already easily available to government agents, just not the one who think of Excel as data processing. 😉
As I said before, Cracka/s needs to dump all the data they can access and then announce the hack.
Unless and until the government joins its citizens in the same goldfish bowl, its attitude towards privacy will never change. Perhaps not even then but it’s worth a shot.
PS: For the automatic: But people will get hurt from open data dumping! And your point? People are being hurt now by government secrecy and invasions of their privacy.
I wonder what your basis is for choosing who it is acceptable to hurt across an entire nation? I forgot, that’s a secret isn’t it?