Given the caliber of White House staff Donald Trump has hired on, the only thing surprising about the news that an emailing "prankster" pretended to be Jared Kushner and was rewarded with the private email address of a Homeland Security Adviser is that it doesn’t happen all the time. Or, ya know, maybe it does.
"Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August," the fake Jared Kushner on an Outlook account wrote to the official White House email account of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert. "It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible (sic) quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening."
Bossert wrote back: "Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can't refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is" (redacted).
A thought: Just where the hell were princeling Jared Kushner and Tom Bossert dining when they were supposed to be visiting U.S. troops in Iraq and, you know, sort out this whole Middle East thing? I don't think anybody has been tempted into a "soiree" with promises of food just as good as that mess hall.
Anyhoo, this appears to be the same prankster that tricked now-out-on-his-behind Anthony Scaramucci into thinking he was a vengeance-seeking Reince Priebus, and tricked future Russian Ambassador Huntsman into thinking he was getting messages from Qusay Trump, and I think we can all see how there is potential here for us to be truly and thoroughly boned if anyone with more nefarious motives has been playing the same games with the pretzeldent’s men. (Another note: given how freely Poochie was in responding to the prankster, it may be that the problem is not White House leaks, but White House staff members gullibly telling pranksters every detail of inner White House workings under the apparent belief that they were communicating with other members of the staff.)
I seem to recall Donald Trump opining that if Democratic Party officials couldn't stop Russian government-sponsored hackers from breaking into party systems then that was just their own damn fault. It appears the bar to hack into the Oval Office is, however, considerably lower.