US Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) - HACKED

ꕤ Article SOURCE https://archive.is/K75wv#selection-1376.0-1501.196 HACKED James Clapper US Director of National Intelligence Hacked by:  CWA / Crackas With Attitude Series of accounts redirect calls to:  Fee Palestine Movement confirmed by Office of DNI spox: Brian Hale FBI has not responded to request for comment Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief Written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai January 12, 2016 // 12:34 PM EST One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Motherboard has learned. A group of hackers calling themselves “Crackas With Attitude” or CWA made headlines in October, hacking into CIA Director John Brennan’s email account and apparently getting access to several online tools and portals used by US law enforcement agencies. The hackers' exploits prompted the FBI to issue an alert warning government officials of their attacks. One of the group’s hackers, who’s known as “Cracka,” contacted me on Monday, claiming to have broken into a series of accounts connected to Clapper, including his home telephone and internet, his personal email, and his wife’s Yahoo email. While in control of Clapper’s Verizon FiOS account, Cracka claimed to have changed the settings so that every call to his house number would get forwarded to the Free Palestine Movement. When they gained notoriety last year, Cracka and CWA claimed their actions were all in support of the Palestine cause. “I’m pretty sure they don’t even know they've been hacked,” Cracka told me in an online chat. But Brian Hale, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, confirmed the hack to Motherboard on Tuesday. “We’re aware of the matter and we reported it to the appropriate authorities,” Hale said, declining to answer any other questions on the record. (The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.) [ARTICLE CONTINUES ...] https://archive.is/K75wv ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Thought this was funny. But it's not so funny when you consider the amount of prison time the pranksters will get if they're caught. The redirect to 'Free Palestine Movement' is cool.  A redirect to Hezbollah or someone like that would be even funnier. Suspected social engineering hack, according to the article.  Article also said that all hacks, even the big ones, begin with a social engineering component. Wonder why FBI aren't commenting?  Maybe they're embarrassed? What I don't understand is this:  if you have access to online tools used by US law enforcement agencies, as a result of the hack, why would you disclose the hack and deprive yourself of those tools?  That doesn't make sense to me. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- EDIT WikiLeaks notes that VICE have betrayed the source 'handle'.  Not sure if it's the guy's chat ID or his Twitter handle, or both. LINK | Source I didn't notice that reading the article first time around. Journalists don't seem like a good choice for sharing anything secret.  Look at what happened to Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu:  he did something like 18 years in an Israeli prison, 11 of it in solitary, after being betrayed by Australian newspapers & kidnapped in Europe by Mossad. With the WikiLeaks electronic submission system people who whistleblow stay anonymous because they're electronically masked, I guess. It must be hard keeping secrets.  One hint of CIA torture (or hint of anything unpleasant, really) and I'd most probably be squealing.  Secrets are also a burden, as in there's an unpleasant, conflicted feeling that must be endured in order to keep a secret.  Or, there would be for me, I think.  But that's just hypothetical social type of situations.  It would probably be worse for something really important.  ꕤ