Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 notorious pro-Palestinian hacking grouping behind a serial of embarrassing hacks against U.S.A. word officials as well as leaked the personal details of 20,000 FBI agents, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security officers, as well as or thus publish of DoJ staffers inward 2015.
Believe or not, the leader of this hacking grouping was but 15-years-old when he used "social engineering" to impersonate CIA manager as well as unauthorisedly access highly sensitive information from his Leicestershire home, revealed during a courtroom hearing on Tuesday.
Kane Gamble, forthwith 18-year-old, the British teenager hacker targeted as well as thus CIA manager John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, FBI deputy manager Mark Giuliano, every bit good every bit other senior FBI figures.
Between June 2015 as well as Feb 2016, Gamble posed every bit Brennan as well as tricked telephone phone centre as well as helpline staff into giving away broadband as well as cable passwords, using which the squad also gained access to plans for word operations inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan as well as Iran.
The teenager also taunted his victims as well as their families, released their personal details, bombarded them amongst calls as well as messages, downloaded as well as installed pornography onto their computers as well as took command of their iPads as well as TV screens.
He also made hoax calls to Brennan's domicile as well as took command of his wife’s iPad.
At i point, Gamble also sent DHS secretarial assistant Johnson a photograph of his missy as well as said he would f*** her, phoned his wife, leaving a voicemail message which said: "Hi Spooky, am I scaring you?," as well as fifty-fifty managed to instruct the message "I ain you" on the couple's domicile television.
Gamble was arrested inward Feb 2016 at his council domicile inward Coalville as well as terminal Oct he pleaded guilty to 8 charges of "performing a share amongst intent to secure unauthorised access" as well as two charges of "unauthorised alteration of reckoner material."
Gamble said he targeted the U.S. authorities because he was "getting to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than annoyed close how corrupt as well as cold-blooded the U.S. Government" was as well as "decided to create something close it."
Gamble's defense forcefulness said he was technically gifted but emotionally young as well as has an autistic spectrum disorder, at the fourth dimension of his offending, he had the mental evolution of a 12 or 13-year-old.
Also, the defense forcefulness said, at no indicate did Gamble travail to earnings from his actions.
Out of 10 counts, Gamble previously admitted 8 charges of performing a share amongst intent to secure unauthorised access.
The teenager volition live on sentenced when the hearing resumes at a afterward date.
Two other members of Crackas With Attitude hacking group, Andrew Otto Boggs as well as Justin Gray Liverman, were arrested past times FBI inward September 2016 as well as had already been sentenced to five years inward federal prison.
