The teen hacker breaks into CIA Director personal email

A hacker talking to The New York Post claims to have compromised the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan.

In reference to the Post, the "teen" hacker operates with a classmate under the name "Crackas With Attitude." The two were tweeting under the accounts @phphax and @_CWA_, the latter of which has been suspended. Before it was shut down, the @_CWA_ account tweeted what it claimed was sensitive CIA information which showed what appeared to be a list of names, along with possibly matching social security numbers. The @phphax account has also been tweeting documents it claimed to obtain from the hack.

The Post reports that the hacker gained access to the account through simple social engineering techniques which convinced AOL to reset the password on Brennan's account.

According to the Post, the CIA says it has "referred the matter to the appropriate authorities."