"Guccifer" Files Further Detail Hacking Spree

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/guccifer-archive-687543

The Smoking Gun
JANUARY 6, 2014

JANUARY 6 -- The hacking spree by "Guccifer," the online outlaw who has 
bedeviled Colin Powell, members of the Bush and Rockefeller families, 
Obama administration officials, and assorted other public figures, has 
been far more extensive than previously known, The Smoking Gun has 
learned.

A large cache of documents reveals that the illegal "Guccifer" incursions 
have victimized scores of other high-profile victims both in the U.S. and 
overseas during the past year. The hacker has accessed e-mail 
correspondence, contact lists, phone records, personal photos, online 
storage sites, and a wide range of confidential financial documents, 
including credit card, banking, and investment statements.

The newest roster of "Guccifer" victims includes entertainers, 
industrialists, academics, diplomats, financiers, government and military 
officials, and journalists--most of whom likely have no idea that the 
hacker has illegally prowled through their online accounts. With few 
discernible patterns, "Guccifer" has hopscotched between the accounts of 
victims like comedian Steve Martin; editor Tina Brown (seen below); 
ex-Nixon aide John Dean; author Kitty Kelley; actress Mariel Hemingway; 
three members of the UK’s House of Lords; a former Air Force secretary; 
the CEO/chairman of MetLife, the $60 billion insurance conglomerate; a 
Pulitzer Prize winner; the director of Romania’s domestic intelligence 
service; and a Gibson Dunn partner with the improbably Dickensian name 
Cantwell F.  Muckenfuss III.

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