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

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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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday June 12 2018, @04:49PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Tuesday June 12 2018, @04:49PM (#691988)

    How was it "hacked" exactly? Let me guess, the password was "12345", the same as on his luggage.

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