Teen who hacked top US officials gets two years in prison

CWA’s MO is called “social engineering” — they’d impersonate their victims and call internet and phone providers’ customer support hotlines in order to get confidential info and to reset their targets’ passwords. The group stole 40 attachments from Brennan’s email, some of which were published by Wikileaks. They also broke into Clapper’s and his wife’s …

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