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White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:10PM   
from the hunter2 dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

A personal email account of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was hacked, according to an email obtained by Buzzfeed via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. "As we discussed ... my folks are nervous about the emails you send and ask that you no longer include them on any postings," Kelly wrote. "Then there is hacking which one of my own personal accounts has suffered recently. I do almost everything now by phone or face-to-face comms."

The FOIA email confirms previous reports from Politico that Kelly used a compromised smartphone for months. If it's the same incident (the White House never confirmed the original reports), the attack happened during Trump's transition in late 2016 while Kelly was secretary of homeland security.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/11/john-kelly-hacked-foia-request/

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• Re:One word at a time? Re:One word at a time? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:34PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:34PM (#692015)

  Not sure of your meaning for "cheap theater"?

  On the Canadian side of the Niagara River (border towns) there are/were some strip clubs that the Americans called, "Canadian ballet"...is that similar innuendo?

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• Re:One word at a time? (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 12 2018, @11:32PM

  by c0lo (156) on Tuesday June 12 2018, @11:32PM (#692149) Journal

  The price for the ticket, mate, check it out in the US budget.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

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