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Syrian Electronic Army hacked White House employees personal emails

At least three White House employees personal Gmail accounts hacked by the popular group of hackers known as Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) The source of intelligence revealed a link between this attack and the hack that targeted the Obama administrations social media recently. The White House is prohibited by policy from using personal Webmail accounts for business communications, many of them in reality use personal email also on workspace. The attackers have targeted White House social media employees because it is relatively easy to gather information on them with OSINT analysis.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/16824/hacking/syrian-electronic-army-behind-white-house-employees-personal-email-hack.html

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