Teenager claims he hacked CIA director's email account

Hacker says he posed as worker from US telecoms giant Verizon to access personal details

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A teenage boy claims he has hacked the personal email account of CIA director John Brennan.

The teenager claims he accessed sensitive government documents, which the espionage chief had forwarded as attachments from his work email. He says these included a 47-page application that Brennan had filled out to achieve top-secret government security clearance.

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