Posted on 01/20/2018 2:39:10 PM PST by Eleutheria5
A 15-year-old British teenager accessed top secret US military reports by impersonating a CIA director.
Acting from his Leicestershire home, Kane Gamble posed as CIA Chief John Brennan, gaining access to passwords, personal information, contact lists, security details, and sensitive documents regarding US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Gamble's security attacks occurred between June 2015 and February 2016. In them, he targeted Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, FBI Director Mark Giuliano, former US President Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and others. In addition to the security hacks, Gamble also harassed his victims and their families.
Impersonating Clapper, Gamble directed Clapper's calls to be diverted to the "Free Palestine" organization, and used Clapper's email to contact additional officials. He claimed to have the names of 1,000 FBI staffers.
Some of the information was later used to order an armed SWAT team to deploy to the home of Obama's science and technology adviser John Holdren.
In the case of Johnson, Gamble listened to his voicemails, sent texts from his phone, and harassed his wife. He also persuaded call handlers at an internet giant that he was Brennan, in an attempt to gain access to the then-CIA director's computers. Gamble succeeded in accessing Brennan's AOL account, emails, contacts, and iCloud storage account, and took control of Brennan's wife's iPad.
Gamble also succeeded in accessing the private calls and emails of White House Deputy National Security Adviser Avril Haines and FBI Special Agent Amy Hess, and downloading videos to Hess' computer.
"This has to be the biggest hack, I have access to all the details the Feds use for background checks," court documents showed him as boasting at the time.
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[ British teen: Accessing classified documents was ‘kind of easy’ ]
He worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, or the Awan gang or had John Podesta’s password?
The kid is likely a Rooskie agent.
In cahoots with TRUMP!
To get H->! .
Sure he did. All on his own too.
Gov’t employees are always incompetant. Just go to any DMV, and realize that 99.5% of all gov’t employees are similar.
The CIA is notoriously incompetant and dim. The only thing they are good at is smuggling Heroin, running guns to jihadists, and blackmailing Washington politicians.
Thanks, I never saw that one. It’s one of their better efforts.
(I don’t watch TV and don’t think it was on the radio...)
It still makes me laugh; their left-leaning politics aside
You can break into any house in fifteen seconds, if you do not care how much noise you make.
This kid broke into any number of servers and bypassed their firewalls, all without making much noise at all, until something got triggered.
Gotta admire the initiative and skill demonstrated.
IMHO the DMV is nothing more than an affirmative action jobs program. The Calif. To wit, I did not see a single white employee the last time I was there, and I was actually LOOKING for one. And it wasn’t as though they were at lunch because I sat there for almost three hours and never saw a white person and there must have been at least 100 employees
Yep, pimping muzzie Brennan is magic gold.
Son of Kevin Mitnick?
Clapper can now say a British teen was impersonating him and did all those bad things.
Exactly - also note that the DMV employees we see are those deemed to be the best and the brightest. Reflect on that
Uhmmmm....BS
If a single teen did this,what have other countries done. Why are our bureaucrats so loose with security?
The A-A crowd is represented in government jobs at a far higher percentage than they represent in the population as a whole. It’s one of those privelege things.
Huh??? If this is true, I absolutely LOVE this kid
Right off of Hillary’s server.
The 0bama Administration, as ever, The Amateur Hour!
As bad as all that was for national security it made me LOL.
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