UK teen jailed two years for targeting CIA chief's phone from his bedroom
Source: AP/ABC
Updated 7 minutes ago
A British teenager has been sentenced to two years in a youth detention centre for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior US government officials in what a judge called acts of "cyber terrorism".
Prosecutors say Kane Gamble conned call centres during 2015-16 into revealing information that got him into the accounts of then-FBI director Mark Giuliano, then-secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, then-CIA chief John Brennan and other officials.
They say Gamble, who was part of a group of hackers called Crackas With Attitude, leaked some of the information he gathered using websites such as WikiLeaks.
The BBC said he targeted the databases from his bedroom in Leicestershire, and even managed to use the TV in the house of Mr Johnson to post the message "I own you".
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-21/uk-teen-gets-two-years-for-targeting-cia-chiefs-phone/9683474
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It seems to me the penalty should be on the offices he compromised! They're the ones who failed miserably. That kid should get a medal!
What they're saying is because he pointed out how myopic and ineffective they are, he's gonna pay.
Go kids! 
