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CIA Director’s email account hacked

By Linn Foster Freedman on October 22, 2015
Posted in Data Breach

An anonymous hacker has contacted the New York Post to explain how he was able to hack into the CIA Director’s AOL email account. According to several reports, a high school student and his two friends implemented social engineering to obtain credentials to hack into the personal account.

How did they do it? According to…

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