{"id":42250,"date":"2023-10-19T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=42250"},"modified":"2023-10-20T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:47:26","slug":"cia-spy-recruitment-channel-hijacked-by-hacker-exploiting-twitter-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/cia-spy-recruitment-channel-hijacked-by-hacker-exploiting-twitter-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA spy recruitment channel hijacked by hacker exploiting Twitter glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">A cyber-security, Kevin McSheehan has reportedly hijacked a Telegram channel used by the CIA to recruit spies, exploiting a glitch on the agency&#8217;s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">McSheehan, a 37-year-old ethical hacker from Maine said he noticed that a link to the CIA&#8217;s Telegram channel on Twitter had been truncated, leaving an unused Telegram username available for anyone to claim.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">McSheehan immediately registered the username and redirected traffic from the CIA&#8217;s Twitter account to his own Telegram channel, where he warned potential recruits not to share any secret or sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">&#8220;The CIA really dropped the ball here,&#8221; McSheehan told the BBC. &#8220;My immediate thought was panic. I saw that the official Telegram link they were sharing could be hijacked &#8211; and my biggest fear was that a country like Russia, China or North Korea could easily intercept Western intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The security breach has since been fixed.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-67137773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cyber-security, Kevin McSheehan has reportedly hijacked a Telegram channel used by the CIA to recruit spies, exploiting a glitch on the agency&#8217;s official Twitter account. McSheehan, a 37-year-old ethical hacker from Maine said he noticed that a link to the CIA&#8217;s Telegram channel on Twitter had been truncated, leaving an unused Telegram username available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-42250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-privacy-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42252,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42250\/revisions\/42252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}