CIA Director John Brennan and other U.S. government officials including ex-CIA director David Petraeus and Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton are currently under public scrutiny for negligence to follow security protocols in handling government information. The onslaught of criticisms comes after the controversial website WikiLeaks released the second batch of information gathered from John Brenner's AOL account on Thursday. 

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Information in Brennan's email was originally compromised atfer a hacker, who identified himself as a 13-year-old ordinary American High school student, got hold of his account by tricking AOL into giving information and resetting the account's password.

The hacker, whose supposed twitter account is @phphax, has openly expressed support for the Palestinian cause. The said leak holds several emails that include email addresses of government agencies such as Office of the Secretary of Defense, the US air Force and the Department of Homeland Security. It also includes Brennan's contact lists such as affiliates', friends' and families' information. Aside from pseudonyms like "TexasGirl95","volleyballguy", and "Sunshine5B", other names are of the high profile figures such as Tom Donilon, former National Security Adviser.

Nothing incriminating has been found in Brennan's email but this move has put his career at risk. It was recently discovered that Hilary Clinton used a private email server when she was the Secretary of Defense. Her decision to exchange possibly vital government data through email made it vulnerable to hackers and exposed them to sites like Wiki Leaks. This incident has been a big embarrassment on the US intelligence and security.

WikiLeaks has noted that more emails will be released in the next days. 

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