Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets

[CajunBlazer]

(sort of election related)

Karma, it turns out, is a borscht.

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.

And unlike the reported Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee, the Ukrainian hack reached deep into the office of the Russian president.

"This is a serious hack," said Maks Czuperski, head of the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council (DFRL), which has searched through the email dump and placed selected emails on-line.

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."

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Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets

[pscot]

1. Any number can play

[Blue Idaho]

2. Please sir may we have some more? nt.

[Raster]

3. Right on, and keep 'em coming!

Once a KGB thug, always a KGB thug... and an incompetent one at that.

Pooty-poot needs to watch his ass... Mr. Tsar-wannabe is starting to make Mother Russia the laughing stock of the intelligence community, and the recognized problem child in the world community.

You can almost smell the stale cabbage and low-grade Russian vodka...

Das vedanya, comrade.

[Codeine]

7. Mr. Pendantic chimes in. . .

"Do svedaniya".

Sorry!

[MADem]

9. Better still.... (LOL) ....

До свидания

[Raster]

14. No worries.

Спасибо

The most common and neutral way to say goodbye in Russian is 'do svidaniya', which translates as 'until we next meet'. ... A friendlier and more casual way to say goodbye in Russian and wish somebody all the best at the same time is to say 'udachi', which stands for 'good luck'.

[GeoWilliam750]

19. I am still wondering about Putin's behaviour in light of

The steady Chinese colonisation of Siberia.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Could this be the work of The Jester?

[cilla4progress]

5. Remember way back last weekend

US said we were going to cyber attack / take revenge on them? Could this be it?

[CajunBlazer]

10. Nah, this looks like a Ukranian job from start to finish

US government officials are saying we had nothing to do with it, and I believe them. The reason I believe them is that I don't believe we will advertise our cyber attacks after they are launched. But we will know that Putin knows that we are behind them and that we are sending a message - this is a warning - don't try that shit again or next time it will be a lot worse.

If cyber warfare breaks out, I doubt you will read about in the New York Times unless it get totally out of hand and one nation or another takes out the others power grid of something like that. Sooner or later everyone have to back off - it will be like nuclear weapons that never get used - everyone will be afraid of mutually assured destruction.

[cstanleytech]

18. That story made no sense then and it makes none now as if

you are going to do such a thing you dont warn the target ahead of time.

[anamandujano]

6. "Karma, it turns out, is a b̶i̶t̶c̶h̶ borscht." I find that to be true.

[central scrutinizer]

16. Borscht is a wonderful soup

Made from beets, etc. please don't conflate it with a pejorative.

[anamandujano]

20. That's how they used it in the title of the article. I like borscht too.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. The big difference being Putin controls the narrative and the press. n/t

[TonyPDX]

11. This is a great start, but they need to keep digging.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Trumpski's buddy

[CajunBlazer]

13. It's a bromance!

[maryellen99]

15. After Hillary takes office can the FCC please pull the plug on RT here in the US?

Funny how the same whiners cried about Al Jazeera being broadcast here are silent about RT which is propaganda.

[cstanleytech]

22. No, she probably cannot do anything about them as the first amendment is

explicitly clear that there is to be freedom of the press and no matter what your opinion is of RT they are a news organization, granted they are slanted as badly as fox news but in the end its still news.

[Cha]

17. Very much related!

Thank you, Cajun!

[awoke_in_2003]

21. And it should be a paid holiday...

if you present proof of voting.