A hacker who goes by the name of Guccifer managed to hack the personal email accounts of friends and relatives of former presidents George HW Bush and George W. Bush, the exposure of a large amount of photographs and emails. Even in retirement, it seems, privacy remains a huge problem.
A report by the magazine The Smoking Gun says that in recent communication with Guccifer, the hacker self-assured that he managed to drag "many things" that included "mails interesting "about George HW Bush at the recent alert hospital. Also included was a list of addresses at home, phone numbers and email addresses for many family members in October 2012.
The presentations emails from six separate email accounts including the sister of George W. Bush, Dorothy Bush Koch, former CBS sports and brother and family, a friend of the lady Barbara Bush, Jim Nantz. One leak emails have even included details of the PIN Nantz required to access the property of George W. Bush, as well as details of a reservation for dinner and the restaurant the pair planned to visit after a round of golf.
were also compromised the details of George HW Bush's recent hospitalization, revealing that the family was even considering planning a funeral in late-December, such was his condition. Accompanied by these emails were hospital president and pictures of the patient a message from President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, expressing their well wishes.
The list of pirated items also included paintings that George W. Bush worked - including two self-portraits, candid him in the bathroom and shower. The attack further underlines that even personalities are still vulnerable to this kind of threat, especially when they are unable to use other security measures such as a VPN service.
Guccifer claims to have hacked "hundreds of accounts" and doesn 't seem to fear the prospect of the almost inevitable FBI investigation. In fact, Guccifer unfortunately appears hellbent on continuing its piracy wave. If you prefer not to have your self-portraits dinner reservation and exposed intimate information and then using a VPN can help make your personal data more difficult for hackers to access.
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