New York Post

Hack kid’s new target

- By PHILIP MESSING, JAMIE SCHRAM and BRUCE GOLDING Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton

The teen who claims to have hacked into CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account said Monday he has already picked his next target: Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official.

The hacker told The Post, which broke the story (in set), that he and a pal who call themselves “CWA” — “Crackas With Attitude” — had identified Work’s online Verizon account and were preparing to launch an attack.

When asked what the plan was, he said: “Jack his account, leak his call logs, and, if there’s an email connected to it, we’ll just jack that, too.”

The US teen also described pulling a “Ferris Bueller”style move so he could play hooky from high school on Monday.

He said he told his parents that he “wasn’t feeling very well” and began fielding interview requests from various news outlets via Twitter.

He told Sky News of his admiration for fugitive NSA whistleblo­wer Edward Snowden, saying he himself was “prolly gonna go [to] Russia . . . and chill with snowden.”

During the afternoon, he tweeted an image of a spreadshee­t containing the purported Social Security numbers, phone numbers and email addresses of Brennan and more than a dozen current and former national-security officials.

He also asked, “Do we copy John Brennan’s Questionai­re [sic] for National Security Positions? Has everything about him including ssn ;) #CWA”

Twitter suspended his account a short time later.

The hacker said he hadn’t seen any sign of law enforcemen­t on his trail, despite sources telling The Post that he’ s under investigat­ion by the FBI and the Secret Service.

Verizon said it was “actively investigat­ing.”

The Department of Defense declined to comment.

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