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Subject: [ISN] Obama Intelligence Agency Chairman Has His E-Mail Account Hacked By "Guccifer"
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-05-29 8:57:07
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1305290416440.19120 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/guccifer-hacks-obama-intelligence-official-567983
The Smoking Gun
MAY 28, 2013
After detours targeting "Sex and the City" author Candace Bushnell and
journalist Carl Bernstein, the hacker "Guccifer" has returned to his
bread and butter criminality, breaking into the e-mail account of an
Obama administration official who heads the National Intelligence
Council.
The breach of Christopher Kojm's personal msn.com account appears to
have occurred within the past week, based on screen grabs from his
account that were forwarded to TSG by the hacker.
Kojm, 57, is chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), whose
officers provide strategic assessments on future threats and trends to
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (which was formed
post-September 11 to coordinate the U.S. government's assorted
intelligence agencies).
Pictured at right, Kojm is a former congressional staffer who has worked
as a senior adviser to the Iraq Study Group and deputy executive
director of the 9/11 Commission. Following the 2008 presidential
election, Kojm was named a member of Barack Obama's transition team,
focusing on national security matters. In mid-2009 he was appointed to
lead the NIC.
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