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Agence France-Presse

An English teenager who accessed the email accounts of top US intelligence and security officials including the head of the CIA was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday.
Kane Gamble, 18, founder of Crackas With Attitude, will serve his sentence in a youth detention facility.
“This was an extremely nasty campaign of politically motivated cyberterrorism,” judge Charles Haddon-Cave said at the sentencing at London’s Old Bailey criminal court.
“The victims would have felt seriously violated,” Haddon-Cave said, adding that Gamble had “revelled” in the attacks. Gamble was accompanied by his mother in court.

He was 15 and 16 when, from his bedroom in the central English town of Coalville, he managed to impersonate his targets to get passwords and gain highly sensitive information.
He impersonated the Central Intelligence Agency chief John Brennan in calls to the telecom companies Verizon and AOL.
Several sensitive documents were reportedly obtained from Brennan’s private email inbox and Gamble managed to get information about military and intelligence operations in Iran and Afghanistan.
“It also seems he was able to successfully access Mr Brennan’s iCloud account,” prosecutor John Lloyd-Jones said earlier.
FBI gains expanded hacking powers, even outside the US
Gamble called AOL and initiated a password reset, and took control of the iPad of Brennan’s wife.
Gamble also targeted then US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and made calls to his telephone number.
He left Johnson’s wife a voicemail saying “Am I scaring you?” and managed to get a message to appear on the family television saying: “I own you.”
Other targets included then US president Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser Avril Haines, his senior science and technology adviser John Holdren, and FBI special agent Amy Hess.

Gamble gained extensive unauthorised access to the US Department of Justice network and was able to read court case files, including on the Deepwater oil spill.
The British teenager gave some of the materials to which he gained access to WikiLeaks and boasted that he had a list of all Homeland Security employees.
Gamble was arrested at his home on February 9, 2017, at the request of the FBI.
He claimed he was motivated to act out of support for the Palestinians, and because of the United States “killing innocent civilians”, the prosecutor said.


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British teen who hacked CIA chief sentenced to two years in prison

The hacker Kane Gamble in London in January. The British teenager has been sentenced to jail for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior US government officials in what a judge called acts of ‘cyberterrorism.’ Photo: PA via AP 

FILE PHOTO: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Britain, May 19, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 14, 2016 shows CIA Director John Brennan speaking during a panel discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS) in Washington, DC. Allegations of Russian interference in US politics cast a shadow over inaugural preparations on Sunday, with the CIA chief warning that the president-elect must tamp down his shoot-from-the-hip style to protect national security. John Brennan's warning to the incoming Republican president -- just days before Friday's inauguration -- came as US senators launched a bipartisan probe into Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 election. "I don't think he has a full appreciation of Russian capabilities, Russia's intentions and actions," ?Brennan said of Trump on Fox News Sunday on January 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ZACH GIBSON

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