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Private Email of CIA Director and Homeland Security Secretary Hacked

Bottom Line IT
November 25, 2015 8:00 PM

TechnologyOddly enough, the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, has an AOL email account and it was recently hacked by a group called CWA. Jeh Johnson, who heads up the Department of Homeland Security, was also targeted and according to the group it was a very easy to accomplish.

It is strange that AOL is still used for email by some of the folks in some of the highest levels of security positions within the government, but it is not strange that email and data breaches are occurring at an ever increasing clip.

Hackers Were Able to Break into the CIA Director’s Private Email Account

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