Crackas amongst Attitude is the grouping of hackers who allegedly was behind a serial of audacious as well as embarrassing hacks that targeted personal electronic mail accounts of senior officials at the CIA, FBI, the White House, Homeland Security Department, as well as other the States federal agencies.
Andrew Otto Boggs, 22, of North Wilkesboro, N.C., who allegedly used the handgrip "INCURSIO," as well as Justin Gray Liverman, 24, of Morehead City, who known online every bit "D3F4ULT," were arrested on Th morn on charges related to their alleged roles inward the estimator hacking, according to a press release past times Department of Justice.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 16-year-old British teenager suspected of beingness share of the grouping was arrested inward February past times the FBI as well as British police.
Although courtroom documents did non mention the victims, the hacking grouping had allegedly:
- Hacked into the AOL electronic mail of CIA manager John Brennan and released personal details.
- Hacked into the personal emails as well as telephone accounts of the US spy original James Clapper.
- Broke into the AOL electronic mail of the FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano.
"In about instances, members of the conspiracy uploaded individual data that they obtained from victims’ personal accounts to populace websites; made harassing telephone calls to victims as well as their families; as well as defaced victims’ social media accounts," reads the press release.
According to the FBI officials, betwixt Oct 2015 to Feb 2016, the hacking grouping used social technology scientific discipline inward gild to play a joke on the victims into revealing their trouble concern human relationship number, password, as well as other details.
Boggs as well as Liverman volition endure extradited adjacent calendar week to the Eastern District of Virginia, where federal prosecutors accept spent months edifice a illustration against Crackas With Attitude.
