The mother of the British teenager who faces jail for trying to hack top US officials including the CIA director ‘blew a £1.6million Lotto jackpot on doomed property deals,’ it has been reported.
Kane Gamble, 18, from Coalville, pleaded guilty to ten hacking charges at Leicester Crown Court yesterday and was warned he could face jail.
Gamble, who lives in a small terraced house in north-west Leicestershire, had a hit list containing top names from the FBI, CIA and Obama administration in 2015 and 2016.
Using his computer at home his hacking targets included John Brennan, the then director of the CIA, and the former deputy director of the FBI, Mark Giuliano.
Kane Gamble, 18, has today (pictured) admitted trying to hack US government officials including the then director of the CIA John Brennan (right) at Leicester Crown Court
He is believed to have carried out the cyber attacks from the bedroom of this Leicestershire council house
It has now been reported by The Sun that his mother Ann, 55, won the jackpot in 1997.
A friend of his mother, who is now a cleaner, said: ‘She lost all the money on doomed property deals.’
The cyber criminal even tried to hack the Comcast cable TV and broadband account belonging to James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence under President Obama, so he could divert his incoming calls in January 2016.
The teenager admitted eight charges of ‘performing a function with intent to secure unauthorised access’ to the computers and two charges of ‘unauthorised modification of computer material’.
Also on the list was Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser Avril Haines and his senior science and technology adviser John Holdren.
Gamble’s defence QC William Harbage QC said his client is ‘autistic’ and committed the cyber-crimes aged 15 and 16.
Reports at the time of his arrest in 2016 said a British teenager had infiltrated the personal e-mail account of Mr Brennan and posted details online and CNN said he ma have had linked to the ‘Crackas with Attitude’ hacking group.
The prosecution case was not opened and no details were given in court about the offences Gamble has admitted or if he was a so-called ‘Cracka’.
In the first charge on the indictment, Gamble was accused of ‘causing a computer to perform a function to secure unauthorised access to a program or data held in computers’ belonging to Mr Brennan between June 1 and October 30, 2015.
The next offence involved the teenager attempting to gain unauthorised access to the computer of the then US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson between July 4 and October 22, 2015.
On October 17, 2015, Gamble tried to access the computer of Ms Haines.
Between October 18 and Christmas Day 2015 Gamble targeted FBI Special Agent Amy Hess.
The teenager attempted to gain access to the computer of Mr Giuliano between October 29 and November 16.
The cyber criminal even tried to hack the Comcast cable TV and broadband account belonging to intelligence chief James Clapper so he could divert his incoming calls and also targeted deputy director of the FBI, Mark Giuliano.
Gamble tried to hack into an FBI portal between November 2 and November 22, 2015.
The next count involved a Comcast account operated by James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence under President Obama, which Gamble targeted between January 4 and January 12, 2016.
Between January 5 and January 18, 2016, he tried to gain access to the computer of Vonna Weir Heaton, the former intelligence executive of the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
Between January 17 and January 20, 2016, Gamble targeted a Comcast account operated by Mr Holdren.
The final charge involved an attempt to gain access to the US Department of Justice’s network between January 26 and February 4, 2016.
Gamble, of Coalville, Leicestershire, will be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on December 15.