CIA director says he is "outraged" by hacking of his personal email account

The head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said Tuesday he was "outraged" that his personal email account was hacked, insisting his experience showed everyone was vulnerable to cyber threats.

CIA Director John Brennan spoke about the incident for the first time at George Washington University. He criticized the media for covering it.

"I was also dismayed at how some of the media handled it and the inferences there were," said Brennan, who didn't name any particular media outlet and insisted he had done nothing wrong.

A hacker who claimed himself to be a high school student said last week he hacked Brennan's personal email account by posing as an employee of the telecom company Verizon and tricking another employee of the company to reveal Brennan's personal information.

Certain contents from Brennan's personal email have begun appearing on the website of Wikileaks, the document leak site, including one document which appeared to be Brennan's draft security clearance application form containing information about his wife and family members and some names of Brennan's foreign contacts in the past. Endit