The CIA director was hacked by a 13-year-old, but he still wants your data | Trevor Timm
The Senate is currently debating a bill that would give the government huge amounts of your private information. But this would make hacks more likely
The world's most powerful spy, CIA chief John Brennan, was bested on Monday by a self-described "stoner" 13-year-old and an associate, who broke into his America Online email account and started posting some of its contents on Twitter. At least some of Brennan's private emails seemed to contain extremely sensitive information including his security clearance application and the social security numbers of several CIA officers.
Will this cause as much outrage as Hillary Clinton's private email server (which by the way, was at least more secure than a freaking AOL account)? Almost certainly not. As the architect of the CIA drone program, Brennan is about as above the law as one could get in the United States. He's been openly accused of leaking classified information to the press (for which someone else was punished), and he even admitted to orchestrating a "hacking" himself, when he ordered his underlings to spy on the computers Senate staff members were using to research their damning CIA torture report last year.
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