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Before taking office, Trump was told Putin ordered DNC hack, reports say

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Two weeks before assuming the office of the presidency, Donald Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered a wave of Russian-sponsored hacking and disinformation blitzes to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. According to the New York Times, who first reported the news Wednesday, the evidence was compiled from Russian military officers’ digital footprints, intercepted by U.S. and allied intelligence agencies, as well as top-secret sources close to Putin, who told the CIA how Moscow orchestrated its digital interference operation. Speaking to CNN on Thursday morning, James Clapper confirmed that Trump was briefed on Putin’s personal involvement in Russia’s 2016 election cyberattacks, adding: “we left very highly classified written documents that laid out in more detail the evidence.” The directors of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and national intelligence, John Brennan, Michael Rogers, James Comey, and Clapper, respectively, briefed the president-elect on January 6, […]

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Teen Who Hacked Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Gets Sentenced to 2 Years of Prison

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A judge in London sentenced a British teenager who was part of the hacking group Crackas With Attitude, which targeted prominent US government employees. Continue reading Teen Who Hacked Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Gets Sentenced to 2 Years of Prison→

Member of group who hacked CIA director’s email is sentenced to 5 years in prison

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A member of the hacking group “Crackas With Attitude” was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hack U.S. government computer systems and accounts. Victims included more than ten U.S. government officials including the then-director of the CIA John Brennan. Justin Liverman, a 25-year-old who was known under the online alias “D3F4ULT,” pleaded guilty on Jan. 6. His sentence is the maximum allowed under the statute. Liverman will also be forced to pay $145,000 in restitution. The sentencing comes exactly one year after the Justice Department announced the arrest of Liverman and Andrew Otto Boggs, otherwise known as “INCURSIO,” for their involvement with Crackas With Attitude. The pair hacked into organizations under the group’s banner between October 2015 and February 2016. Boggs was sentenced to two years in prison for his role. Emails from Brennan’s America Online account showed up on WikiLeaks in October 2015, including a security clearance questionnaire […]

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