Kane Gamble
Kane Gamble or known online as Cracka (born October 2, 1999) is a British hacker from Coalville, Leicester, member of the team Crackas With Attitude (CWA) who hacked the email and phone accounts of several US government officials (including the former CIA chief John Brennan, the former director of national intelligence James Clapper, the former deputy director of the FBI, Mark Giuliano, Obama's deputy national security adviser, Avril Haines).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Gamble was 15 years old at the time.[9] He accessed “extremely sensitive” documents referring to operations (military and intelligence) in Iraq and Afghanistan.[10][11] Some of the information obtained were posted on Wikileaks and others websites.[12] He pleaded guilty to 10 charges and was sentenced to two years in a youth detention centre.[13]
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- ^ Paganini, Pierluigi (2018-04-21). "UK Teenager Kane Gamble who hacked CIA Chief and other US Intel officials gets 2-year jail sentence". Security Affairs. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "British teenager who 'cyber-terrorised' US intelligence officials sentenced". The Independent. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
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- ^ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-43840075
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