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Man Behind Hacks of Bush Family and Other Celebs Indicted In the US

Posted by Soulskill on from the bet-you-wish-you'd-stood-in-bed dept.

New submitter criticalmass24 writes: 42-year-old Marcel Lehel Lazar, better known as Guccifer, the hacker that gained unauthorized access to email and social network accounts of high-profile public figures, has been charged in the United States. According to the Department of Justice, "[F]rom December 2012 to January 2014, Lazar hacked into the e-mail and social media accounts of high-profile victims, including a family member of two former U.S. presidents, a former U.S. Cabinet member, a former member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a former presidential adviser. After gaining unauthorized access to their e-mail and social media accounts, Lazar publicly released his victims’ private e-mail correspondence, medical and financial information, and personal photographs. The indictment also alleges that in July and August 2013, Lazar impersonated a victim after compromising the victim’s account." The full indictment can be read online.

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  1. Do it right next time by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want to invade the privacy of people and sniff through their most intimate of details, get a job with the government.

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    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    1. Re:Do it right next time by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The difference is maybe that a legitimate government does all that with a warrant and oversight. You know, where a judge has to ponder whether it's ok to violate someone's privacy. The older ones here may remember the time when we had a government like that.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  2. The real news by Charliemopps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If my email gets hacked is the federal government going to extradite someone from Europe to charge them?
    The real story here is special treatment for special people. For some reason the department of justice thinks the invasion of privacy of political and media elites is a worse crime than the invasion of the general publics privacy. It's so transparent it's laughable.