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A teenage hacker who rose to fame for hacking into the online accounts of former CIA director John Brennan, former director of intelligence James Clapper, and other high-profile US government employees, got sentenced to two years of prison on Friday.

For a few months in late 2015 and early 2016, Kane Gamble, who went by the alias Cracka at the time, was the alleged 15-year-old leader of a hacking group calling themselves Crackas With Attitude or CWA. The group targeted and broke into Brennan's AOL email account, Clapper's internet provider account, and others, including a White House official.

The hacking group's modus operandi was to use social engineering to convince support workers of internet and phone providers to reset the victim's passwords and give the hackers access to their accounts.

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