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High school stoner claims hack of Central Intelligence Agency director’s AOL email

The high school student told The New York Post that he found several sensitive files on Brennan’s private AOL account – including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance, Social Security numbers of more than a dozen top US intelligence officials, and a government letter about the use of “harsh interrogation techniques” on terror suspects.

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The duo, who enjoy recreational pot-smoking and call themselves CWA (“Crackas With Attitude”), told the Post that they were able to access Brennan’s AOL (!) account by resetting his password with personal information they tricked Verizon into providing them.

The hacker also claimed to have breached cable accounts belonging to Mr Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

The hacker bragged of his exploits to the New York Post, which described him in an article as “a stoner high school student”.

The Post did not verify the teen’s claims, and the teen has not revealed his identity.

The hacker spoken to by the Post that he likes to smoke marijuana with a classmate and has prank called America’s top spy. A few of the addresses from Brennan’s purported email address book look incorrect, if not outright fabricated.

He said the stolen documents were stored as attachments to about 40 e-mails that he read after breaking into Brennan’s account on October 12, more than six months after the controversy erupted over Clinton’s use of a private computer server to handle e-mails while acting as secretary of state.

The hacker is now promising to release the names, phone numbers and Social Security numbers of Central Intelligence Agency staff. Yet the new _CWA_ Twitter account kicked off by announcing it owned White House Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines, showing her Comcast account, and promising to leak her call logs.

No such document appears to be posted on the hacker’s Twitter account, but it’s not clear whether the hacker posted it elsewhere.

The CWA boys say they’re motivated by their support for Palestine, with numerous tweets in support of the Palestinian people sprinkled along with the CIA-related screenshots.

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“He waited a tiny bit and hung up”, the hacker told the newspaper.

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