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Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets (nbcnews.com)
Ukrainian activists have compromised 2,337 messages in the Microsoft Outlook accounts of two assistants to a top aide of Vladimir Putin. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes NBC News:
A Ukrainian group calling itself Cyber Hunta has released more than a gigabyte of emails and other material from the office of one of Vladimir Putin's top aides, Vladislav Surkov, that show Russia's fingerprints all over the separatist movement in Ukraine. While the Kremlin has denied the relationship between Moscow and the separatists, the emails show in great detail how Russia controlled virtually every detail of the separatist effort in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, which has torn the country apart and led to a Russian takeover of Crimea...
"This is a serious hack," said Maks Czuperski, head of the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, which has searched through the email dump and placed selected emails online. "We have seen so much happen to the United States, other countries at the hands of Russia," said Czuperski. "Not so much to Russia. It was only a question of time that some of the anonymous guys like Cyber Hunta would come to strike them back."
A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that the U.S. "had no role" in the breach -- but when asked if the material was authentic, replied there was "nothing to indicate otherwise."
"This is a serious hack," said Maks Czuperski, head of the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, which has searched through the email dump and placed selected emails online. "We have seen so much happen to the United States, other countries at the hands of Russia," said Czuperski. "Not so much to Russia. It was only a question of time that some of the anonymous guys like Cyber Hunta would come to strike them back."
A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that the U.S. "had no role" in the breach -- but when asked if the material was authentic, replied there was "nothing to indicate otherwise."
Breaking news!
Vladislav Surkov has been found murdered in front of the Kremlin. At 12 noon. While giving a live interview on tv to state these emails are fake.
No witnesses have yet been found.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good article, except when it affirms who shot down MH17.
I know we heard various things on this, but I seriously doubt we can ever be certain about who shot down an aircraft over a region in civil war. The only valid interesting question here is why did we had commercial planes flying there at all?
the only bigger liars than Trump, are his followers, who continue to lie about everything.
Sad. There was a time that America was known for having morals. Now, our GOP has more in common with 3rd world nations, if not with 1930s Germany.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.