Email hacker reveals Bush family photos, addresses

Email hacker reveals Bush family photos,
addresses
===============================
The Secret Service is investigating the
hacking of email accounts belonging to
members of the Bush family that divulged
correspondence, addresses, phone
numbers and a picture of a self-portrait
painted by former President George W.
Bush standing in a shower.
A report on the Smoking Gun website, said
the pilfered emails provided a rare glimpse
into the private lives of one of America's
most powerful political dynasties. The
Bushes are only the second family in U.S.
history to send a father and son to the
White House.
The website said a hacker known as
Guccifer raided the email accounts and
posted the photos online. The pictures
include an image of former President
George H.W. Bush, who was released from
a Houston hospital last month after seven
weeks of treatment for bronchitis and
related ailments, in a hospital bed.
Another photo showed the elder Bush, 88,
posing outside a home with Bill Clinton,
who was president between the two
Bushes.
The intercepted photos also featured a
portrait painted by George W. Bush of
himself showering. It shows a gray-headed
man, nude from the waist up, regarding
the viewer with Bush-like features from
the reflection in a shaving mirror. Another
painting in the same style shows a pair of
legs in a bathtub.
"I really like the paintings of George W.
Bush," New York magazine art critic Jerry
Saltz wrote Friday.
Saltz, who normally reserves his criticism
for the likes of French painter Henri
Matisse, found the president's portraiture
"wonderful, unself-conscious, intense."
Other photos showed Bush painting a
picture of a house and posing with a cut-
out of himself in an artist's smock, beret
and mustache.
SIX EMAIL ACCOUNTS HIT
The Smoking Gun site, known for posting
legal documents and arrest records related
to celebrities, said the hacker invaded six
email accounts, including one belonging to
Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of George
H.W. Bush, as well as other Bush family
members and friends.
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating
whether former President George H.W.
Bush's email was hacked as well, the
agency said on Friday. A Bush family
spokesman declined to comment.
Among the material that was lifted were
an October 2012 list of home addresses,
cell phone numbers and email addresses
for the former presidents and other
relatives, according to the Smoking Gun.
The site said the emails revealed that
when the elder Bush was in poor health,
George W. Bush wrote his siblings the day
after Christmas to say he was "thinking
about eulogy."
"Hopefully I'm jumping the gun," he said,
"but since the feeling is that you all would
rather me speak than bubba, please help."
"Bubba" is a well-known sobriquet for
Clinton.
Since leaving office in 2009, Bush has taken
up painting portraits of Texas landscapes
and dogs. He has live a reserved life,
largely hidden from view, with his wife,
Laura, in Dallas.
Bush is likely to make a more sustained
return to the spotlight when his
presidential library, located at Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, is
completed and dedicated in April

0 comments:

Post a Comment

 
Copyright © PC Tricks