Hacker Targets Clinton Confidant In New Attack Breach exposed years of e-mails exchanged with Hillary Clinton
MARCH 15--The hacker who has spent the past several months breaking into the e-mail accounts of family, friends, and political allies of the Bush family has crossed party lines and illegally accessed the AOL account of a former senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton. The intrusion into Sidney Blumenthal’s e-mail account apparently occurred this week, days after the hacker--who uses the alias “Guccifer”-- defaced Colin Powell’s Facebook page and breached the former Secretary of State’s AOL account. The 64-year-old Blumenthal--who was unaware that he had been hacked by “Guccifer”--worked as an assistant and senior adviser to Clinton for about 3-1/2 years, ending in January 2001. He worked as a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and has remained one of her closest confidants. Blumenthal is pictured at right with the Clintons. By breaching Blumenthal’s account, “Guccifer” was able to access his correspondence (dating back to a...