US official says online personal accounts of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have been hacked
DNI spokesman Brian Hale said on Tuesday that Clapper’s office is aware of the hacking and has reported incident to appropriate authorities
Individual who spoke on condition of anonymity said Office of Director of National Intelligence was aware of hacking before it was reported
Hacking comes months after reports that someone was hacking CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email
Motherboard, online magazine, reported same teenager who broke into Brennan’s account also targeted Clapper
Hacker has said he is a high school student protesting U.S. policy
DailyMail.com
13 January 2016
Just months after reports that someone was hacking CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email, a U.S. intelligence official is confirming that online personal accounts linked to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also have been hacked.
DNI spokesman Brian Hale said on Tuesday that Clapper’s office is aware of the hacking and has reported the incident to appropriate authorities. He declined to provide other details.
An individual not authorized to discuss details who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was aware of the hacking incident before it was first reported on Tuesday by Motherboard.
The magazine reported that the same teenage hacker who broke into Brennan’s account also targeted Clapper.
Motherboard also reported that ‘Cracka’ one of the members of the group of hackers calling themselves ‘Crackas With Attitudes,’ claimed to have broken into accounts connected to Clapper including his home telephone, Internet and his wife Susan’s Yahoo email.
Cracka also told Motherboard that he changed the settings in Clapper’s Verizon FiOS account so that every call to his home phone was forwarded to the Free Palestine Movement.
Motherboard said Cracka provided them with what was said to be Clapper’s home phone number and when called, Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Palestine Movement answered.
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