19th January 2016 By Paul Szoldra
The same hacking group that took control of CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account has now reportedly broken into the accounts of John Holdren, President Obama's senior advisor on science and technology.
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The group, which calls itself "Crackas With Attitude," sent an email to Motherboard's Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai to brag about their latest hack, which gave them access to Holdren's email account, cable subscription for Comcast Xfinity, and redirected home phone calls to a number associated with the Free Palestine Movement.
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The same group that hacked the CIA Director just took over a White House official's email
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+56Talk about embarrassing. Hopefully it will make the politicians take action to force Comcast to improve their security. Since they're a monopoly they won't do it based one market forces.
Personally think that with 'embarrassing' you are being far too kind, Nic...to my mind 'absolute shambles' would be more approrpiate from this fiasco of over arching proportions...and I suspect that no heads will roll as a result given that any further publicity would just exacerbate the potential ridicule. ;)
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+54Thinking about your earlier post about passwords Nic, I wonder if his password was 123456, there communications should be amongst the most secure in the world, it is just beyond ridiculous what is happening.
Or any similarly guessable variation on that theme...LOL. Perhaps we shoudl start a competition called guess the CIA Director's password...;)
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+56My understanding on these hacks is that they are calling up Comcast and pretending to need a password reset. They are able to guess the answers to security questions based on either public information about that person, or from leaked information such as the OPM hack. But it could also be bad passwords 🙂
+6If it's already the second breach they suffer then most likely Nic won't have to spend money to raise one of these in front of the White House as they might not get the idea behind it.
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