Kane Gamble
{{Short description|British computer hacker}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Kane Gamble
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1999|10}}
| birth_place = Leicester
| other_names = Cracka
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| citizenship = British
| occupation = Cybersecurity
}}
Kane Gamble or known online as Cracka (born October 2, 1999) is a British hacker from Leicester, who lead a hacktivist group called Crackas With Attitude (CWA) in 2015, responsible for hacking US government networks, emails and phone accounts of several US government officials (including the US Department of Justice network, the FBI's Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal, former CIA chief John Brennan, the former director of national intelligence James Clapper, the former deputy director of the FBI Mark Giuliano and Obama's deputy national security adviser Avril Haines).{{Cite web |date=2020-08-24 |title=What It’s Like for a Hacker to Get Back Online After a Two-Year Internet Ban |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/kane-gamble-cracka-back-online-after-a-two-year-internet-ban/ |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Paganini |first=Pierluigi |date=2018-04-21 |title=UK Teenager Kane Gamble who hacked CIA Chief and other US Intel officials gets 2-year jail sentence |url=https://securityaffairs.com/71593/cyber-crime/kane-gamble-cia-hack.html |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=Security Affairs |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Blake |first=Andrew |title=Kane Gamble, British hacker, admits targeting heads of CIA, FBI |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/6/kane-gamble-british-hacker-admits-targeting-heads-/ |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=The Washington Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2018-04-20 |title=Two years for teen 'cyber terrorist' who targeted US officials |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-43840075 |access-date=2024-12-08 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |agency=Press Association |date=2018-04-20 |title=Two years' detention for UK teenager who 'cyberterrorised' US officials |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/20/two-years-detention-for-uk-teenager-who-cyberterrorised-us-officials-kane-gamble |access-date=2024-12-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |title=UK teen Kane Gamble gets two years for hacking CIA ex-chief – DW – 04/20/2018 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/uk-teen-kane-gamble-gets-two-years-for-hacking-cia-ex-chief-john-brennan/a-43477403 |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=dw.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2017-10-06 |title=Leicester teen tries to hack CIA and FBI chiefs' computers |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-41527941 |access-date=2024-12-08 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2018-04-22 |title=British teenager who 'cyber-terrorised' US intelligence officials sentenced |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/british-teen-hacker-kane-gamble-us-intelligence-officials-jailed-cia-fbi-a8315126.html |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
Gamble was just 15 years old at the time of the offences.{{Cite web |last=Paganini |first=Pierluigi |date=2018-04-21 |title=UK Teenager Kane Gamble who hacked CIA Chief and other US Intel officials gets 2-year jail sentence |url=https://securityaffairs.com/71593/cyber-crime/kane-gamble-cia-hack.html |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=Security Affairs |language=en-US}}
The court described he accessed “extremely sensitive” documents referring to operations (military and intelligence) in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-22 |title=British teenager who 'cyber-terrorised' US intelligence officials sentenced |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/british-teen-hacker-kane-gamble-us-intelligence-officials-jailed-cia-fbi-a8315126.html |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=The Independent |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2018-04-20 |title=Two years for teen 'cyber terrorist' who targeted US officials |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-43840075 |access-date=2024-12-08 |language=en-GB}}
Some of the information obtained were posted on Wikileaks and others websites.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-43840075 Gamble committed the offences to "raise awareness for the situation in Palestine and the war in Iraq"
Gamble pleaded guilty to 10 charges and was sentenced to two years in a youth detention centre. He served his sentence at HMP Belmarsh, a category A notorious maximum security prison in South East London.{{Cite news |date=2018-04-20 |title=Two years for teen 'cyber terrorist' who targeted US officials |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-43840075 |access-date=2024-12-08 |language=en-GB}}
Rehabiliation
Kane Gamble was released from imprisonment in 2019. Since his release, Gamble has taken part in Bug Bounty programs to help companies secure their websites such as T-Mobile (where he was paid the maximum bounty of $5,000),{{Cite news |date=2018-06-26 |title=British teen who tried to hack CIA chief finds 'critical' T-Mobile flaw exposing customer accounts |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-teen-who-tried-hack-cia-chief-finds-critical-t-mobile-flaw-exposing-customer-accounts-1663768 |access-date=2025-01-25 |language=en-GB}} Ministry of Defence, AT&T and more. Gamble also has several CVE's assigned to his name, including vulnerabilities identified in the encrypted messaging app Wire and Sitecore.
Gamble currently works in the information security sector, specifically as a Senior Security Consultant helping businesses identify vulnerabilities in their systems.