UK teenager admits attempt to hack into CIA chief's computer
by Kevin Rawlinson from Technology | The Guardian on (#349B1)
Kane Gamble, 18, pleads guilty to trying to hack into the computers of senior US government officials
A British teenager has admitted trying to hack into the computers of senior US government officials, including the director of the CIA and the deputy director of the FBI.
Kane Gamble, 18, pleaded guilty on Friday to 10 charges at Leicester crown court. Besides John Brennan, the then director of the CIA, and Mark Giuliano, a former deputy director of the FBI, his targets included Avril Haines, Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, and John Holdren, his senior science and technology adviser.
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