Information security

Obama's FBI investigated former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden for 'leaking classified information to the press about cyber attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities'

The Obama administration reportedly investigated former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden for leaking classified information to the press in 2012. 

A newly unsealed court filing, obtained by The Daily Beast, has revealed that the FBI sought a search warrant for Hayden's AOL email account. 

According to to the file, the FBI suspected Hayden of being a source for a New York Times article that was published on June 1, 2012. 

The article claimed that former president Barack Obama secretly ordered sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that ran Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities.

Those attacks, which begun during the Bush administration in partnership with Israel, were code-named Olympic Games. 

The Stuxnet computer virus accidentally became public in 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet.