George Bush emails hacked after attacker targets friends and family

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3425280/george-bush-emails-hacked-after-attacker-targets-friends-family/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
09 February 2013

An audacious hacker has posted a large cache of photographs and emails 
stolen from the email accounts of friends and relatives of former 
presidents George HW Bush and his son George W Bush, investigative 
magazine The Smoking Gun has reported.

In a spiteful event reminiscent of the hacking of Sarah Palin in 2008 
but on a much larger and intimate scale, the hack underlines that 
prominent people are still incredibly vulnerable to this kind of attack 
when they or their families insist on using public email services with 
no extra security in place.

Cleverly, the attack by ‘Guccifer’ appears to have gained access to the 
ex-presidents by opening the back door, targeting at least six email 
accounts belonging to Bush Senior’s family and friends, including his 
daughter, his wife’s brother and his sister-in-law, as well as several 
friends.

> From this, the attacker gained access to numerous images of family
life, including two painted self-portraits of the younger George Bush in 
the bath and shower, as well as numerous private photographs taken of 
other family members.

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