Two Americans involved in hacking of CIA director appear in court

Five-person team, which also included three British boys, conspired to hack John Brennan and other US officials in part to find evidence of aliens

Two of the men who allegedly conspired to hack into the personal email and phone accounts of senior US government officials, including the CIA director, John Brennan, and homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, appeared in US district court in Virginia on Tuesday.

The US and UK team of hackers broke into the personal accounts of Brennan, Johnson and several other officials and their spouses partially in a search for evidence of aliens, according to an affidavit supporting the arrest warrants for the two Americans in the five-person team.