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Hacker claims to have breached CIA director's personal email
By KEN DILANIAN
Oct. 19, 2015 1:59 PM EDT
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2014 fie photo, CIA Director John Brennan listens during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. An anonymous hacker claims to have breached CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account and has posted documents online, including a list of email addresses purportedly from Brennan’s contact file. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An anonymous hacker claims to have breached CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account and has posted documents online, including a list of email addresses purportedly from Brennan's contact file.
The CIA said it referred the matter to the proper authorities, but would not comment further.
The hacker spoke to the New York Post, which described him in an article published Sunday as "a stoner high school student," motivated by his opposition to U.S. foreign policy and support for Palestinians. His Twitter account, @phphax, includes links to files that he says are Brennan's contact list, a log of phone calls by then-CIA deputy director Avril Haines, and other documents.
The Post said he didn't reveal his name or where he lived.
The hacker also claimed to have breached a Comcast account belonging to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and released what appeared to be personal information.
One document purporting to come from Brennan's AOL email account contains a spreadsheet of people, including senior intelligence officials, along with their Social Security numbers, although the hacker redacted the numbers in the version he posted on Twitter. It's unclear why Brennan would have stored such a document in his private email account. Based on the titles, the document appears to date from 2009 or before.
When people visit the White House and other secure facilities, they are required to supply their Social Security numbers. Brennan could have been forwarding a list of invitees to the White House when he was President Barack Obama's counter terrorism adviser, the job he held before he became CIA director in 2013.
Security experts advise people not to email Social Security numbers, and some companies have software that automatically blocks an email if it detects characters in the format of a Social Security number.
The hacker told the Post he had obtained a 47-page version of Brennan's application for a security clearance, known as an SF86. That document — millions of which were stolen from the federal personnel office last year by hackers linked to China — contains detailed information about past jobs, foreign contacts, finances and other sensitive personal details.
No such document appears to be posted on the hacker's Twitter account, but it's not clear whether the hacker posted it elsewhere.
CIA director John Brennan's emails may have been hacked. Photo: Reuters
The FBI is investigating a teenage hacker's claims to have breached the personal email accounts of the CIA director and the secretary of Homeland Security, according to a law enforcement official.
An anonymous hacker posted online contact lists and other documents he claims were stolen from the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan, as well as personal information from the Comcast billing account of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
The hacker also claimed to have a copy of Brennan's application for a security clearance, known as an SF86, found in Brennan's AOL account. But that document has so far not appeared online. This year, hackers linked to China stole millions of security clearance files stored by the US Office of Personnel Management.
The possible infiltration into his personal correspondence would be embarrassing for Brennan, who this year established a new Directorate for Digital Innovation at the CIA that was designed in part to figure out how to better hide the digital footprints of agency employees.
CIA and Homeland Security officials said the matter was referred to the proper authorities and would not comment further. The FBI would not comment on the claims.
The New York Post first reported the breach. The hacker, who uses the nickname "cracka", contacted the Post last week to get attention for his exploits.
In an article published on Sunday, the Post described him as "a stoner high school student" motivated by his support for Palestinians and his opposition to US foreign policy.
At the Twitter account phphax, the hacker posted hundreds of email addresses he claims were stripped from Brennan's contacts, as well as spreadsheets with the names of current and former national security officials that appear to include Social Security numbers that the hacker crossed out.
The spreadsheets may date to a period before 2009, when Brennan worked in the private sector and was an adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign on intelligence matters. When Obama entered the White House in 2009, Brennan, a 25-year veteran of the CIA, became his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser.
