CIA director John Brennan’s personal e-mails may soon be released to the public by the hackers:

The e-mails’ possible release follows last weekend’s revelation that a high-school student was claiming to have breached Brennan’s private account. The account “held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance — until he recently learned that it had been infiltrated,” according to the New York Post.

President Obama’s team maintained that they were unfazed by the news. “Based on the way that it’s been described to me, the incident that was reported over the weekend is not a particularly significant or worrisome one, but I do think it illustrates that there are vulnerabilities in our system,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday.

#share#Even if the e-mail account contains no information that is itself classified, Earnest is understating the danger of exposing Brennan’s correspondence to foreign spies, according to a GOP Senate aide who works on cyber-security issues.

“There are lots of ways in which you could take information from his e-mail and put it together and form a classified picture,” the aide says. “Depending on how it’s pieced together with other kinds of information — suddenly you’ve got people putting things together to have insights that, otherwise, they would not have.”

— Joel Gehrke is a political reporter for National Review.