Hacker 'Guccifer 2.0' who invaded the US Democratic National Committee and stole confidential information turned out to be an officer of the General Information Bureau of the Russian Federation Army Chief of Staff
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) network was hacked in June 2016, when Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton were in a fierce battle in the US presidential election. The Daily Beast reports that the hacker ' Guccifer 2.0 ' who claimed to have done this hack was a Russian government official.
EXCLUSIVE:'Lone DNC Hacker' Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that the server of DNC, the organization that controls the Democratic Party, was breached . According to the Washington Post, DNC's computer was stolen from the Donald Trump Report, which gathered not only history of emails, chats, etc., but also negative information about Trump, who was a rival to Hillary, the Democratic Party at the time. The Democratic Party suffered a great deal of damage in the presidential election, including a top secret report.
After the press, DNC promptly announced that it was 'intelligence by Russian government officials,' but on June 15, 2016, the next day, a hacker calling himself 'Guccifer 2.0' claimed to be the crime . .. Guccifer 2.0 publishes Donald Trump Report, a list of Democratic contributors, Hillary's confidential material, etc. instead of proof that he is the culprit, and reveals that Wikileaks has already provided the stolen files. Did.
In the criminal statement, Guccifer 2.0 emphasized that it was wrong to say that the DNC was committed by Russia and that it was his sole offense. By the way, it is clear that 'Guccifer' is derived from the famous Romanian hacker Guccifer (real name Marcel Laser Rehel), and Guccifer 2.0 himself claimed to be a Romanian hacker who admires Guccifer.
Of course, US law enforcement officials haven't broken the belief that 'Guccifer 2.0 is Romanian and Russia is behind it' from the beginning. Roger Stone, a political adviser to President Trump and a key figure in the birth of President Trump, said he had interacted with Guccifer 2.0 on Twitter, arguing that it should not be associated with Russia.
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According to The Daily Beast, cybersecurity company ThreatConnect used Guccifer 2.0 email metadata to identify the person. Then, while following the appearance of Guccifer 2.0 interrupted at a data center in France, it was finally discovered that Guccifer 2.0 was relaying Elite VPN , a VPN service based in Russia.
Guccifer 2.0 is based in Moscow on Twitter's server log because it used Twitter one day without activating its VPN client, according to information from Daily Beast's sources familiar with government investigations. I found that I left the IP address. As a result of deciphering this IP address, it was discovered that Guccifer 2.0 is an officer who works for the General Information Bureau of the Russian Federation Army Chief of Staff in Moscow, Russia.
In addition, it is said that Guccifer 2.0 was successfully identified by the investigation team of Special Prosecutor Robert Muller, who was appointed by the former FBI director to investigate the alleged involvement in the presidential election by Russia (Russia Gate). Regarding the Russian government's involvement in the presidential election, Special Prosecutor Muller is said to be interested in the relationship between Cambridge Analytika and Trump administration officials who obtained user data from Facebook , and on March 22, 2018 Attorney John Daud, who was the head of President Trump's personal defense team and was handling the investigation of Russia Gate, has resigned , and it seems that the investigation of Russia Gate may progress significantly in the future.
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