How White House officials were ‘fooled by email prankster’

The following article was posted on the BBC News website August 1, 2017:

Email prankster @Sinon_reborn: Reince (me) giving @Scaramucci something to think about. He never replied hahaImage copyrightTWITTER
Image captionThe hacker shared emails on Twitter that he sent while pretending to be Reince Priebus, the recently sacked White House chief of staff

A UK hacker reportedly fooled top White House officials into engaging in fake email exchanges.

The self-proclaimed “email prankster” convinced a senior cyber security adviser he was the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, CNN says.

He also goaded the then media chief, Anthony Scaramucci, in the guise of ex-chief of staff Reince Priebus. Continue reading “How White House officials were ‘fooled by email prankster’”